{"id":345715,"date":"2017-08-17T14:17:37","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T14:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=345715"},"modified":"2017-08-17T14:17:37","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T14:17:37","slug":"game-of-thrones-struck-by-fresh-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/08\/game-of-thrones-struck-by-fresh-leak\/","title":{"rendered":"Game of Thrones struck by fresh leak"},"content":{"rendered":"
Game of Thrones’s next episode has been pirated and shared online in the latest leak to hit the fantasy TV series.<\/p>\n
However, this time, the source of the leak was not hackers or thieves, but rather the show being mistakenly released on to its broadcaster’s streaming platform too early.<\/p>\n
The episode, titled Death is the Enemy, has since been withdrawn, but not before it was copied.<\/p>\n
Twin Peaks suffered a similar error recently.<\/p>\n
A spokesman for HBO Europe blamed an unnamed contractor for the most recent blunder.<\/p>\n
“We have learned that the upcoming episode of Game of Thrones was accidentally posted for a brief time on the HBO Nordic and HBO Espana platforms,” Tom Krogsgaard Nielsen told the BBC.<\/p>\n
“The error appears to have originated with a third-party vendor, and the episode was removed as soon as it was recognised.<\/p>\n
“This is not connected to the recent cyber-incident at HBO in the US.”<\/p>\n
Reports indicate that high-definition footage from the episode was initially posted to YouTube, the Daily Motion, Instagram and other social media sites.<\/p>\n
Although it has since been removed, different copies of the complete 66-minute show are still being shared on\u00a0several file-sharing platforms, according to the news site Torrentfreak.<\/p>\n
Stolen shows<\/strong><\/p>\n HBO has suffered a series of security setbacks over recent weeks.<\/p>\n Unidentified hackers have\u00a0released Game of Thrones scripts, company documents and unbroadcast video episodes of some of HBO’s\u00a0other shows, including Curb Your Enthusiasm and Insecure.<\/p>\n They claim to have stolen 1.5TB of data in total.<\/p>\n In a separate incident, pirated copies of the 6 August episode of Game of Thrones were spotted online several days earlier in the week, featuring an Indian broadcaster’s logo.<\/p>\n Four people\u00a0have since been arrested, three of whom work for a Mumbai-based company that stored and processed the show for an online streaming service.<\/p>\n Not what it seemed<\/p>\n HBO is not the only broadcaster to have been caught out by its own technology.<\/p>\n