You may remember Disney’s boss revealing that hackers had threatened to leak one of the studio’s new films unless it paid a ransom.<\/p>\n
Bob Iger didn’t name the film, but it was thought to be Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.<\/p>\n
But now Iger has told Yahoo Finance: “To our knowledge we were not hacked.”<\/p>\n
“We decided to take [the threat] seriously but not react in the manner in which the person who was threatening us had required.”<\/p>\n
But, he added: “We don’t believe that it was real and nothing has happened.”<\/p>\n
Iger had told employees earlier this month that the hackers had demanded the ransom in bitcoin and that they would release the film online in a series of 20-minute chunks unless it was paid.<\/p>\n
The Disney boss was keen to stress how technology has benefitted Disney but also said it also presented significant challenges to the film industry.<\/p>\n
“In today’s world, cyber security is a front burner issue,” he said.<\/p>\n
“We like to view technology more friend than foe… [but] it is also a disruptor.”<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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