Hack Brief: HBO Shows and a Game of Thrones Script Land Online

Published: Aug. 2, 2017, 8:59 a.m.

This weekend, the same email landed in the inboxes of an untold number of entertainment journalists. \u201c1.5 TB of HBO data just leaked!!!\u201d screamed the subject header, while the email itself, addressed "to all mankind," promised \u201cthe greatest leak of space era,\u201d and a link to a site that hosts unreleased an Game of Thrones script, not-yet-aired episodes of Ballers and Insecure, Room 104, and Barry. According the hackers, there\u2019s plenty more where that came from.