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Hacker Holds Orange Is The New Black and Other Shows Ransom

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A hacker who claims to have stolen the new season of “Orange is the New Black” is threatening to release the episodes online, unless Netflix pays an undisclosed amount of money, Variety has confirmed.

“We are aware of the situation. A production vendor used by several major TV studios had its security compromised and the appropriate law enforcement authorities are involved,” Netflix said in a statement.

Using the alias The Dark Overlord, the hacker reportedly stole other TV shows in the breach, according to the AP, and may have already uploaded the first episode of “Orange Is the New Black” Season 5 to an illegal file-sharing website.

The F.B.I. is said to be investigating the matter.

New episodes of “Orange Is the New Black” are set for release on June 9.

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings recently announced the streaming giant had surpassed 100 million subscribers. The company also said it was raising more than $1 billion outside of the U.S. to invest in its global division.

In the stock market, Netflix shares closed at $152.20 (-0.57%) on Friday.

http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/hack...ck-1202403612/

2017, man...

Do ransoms even work?

I have no personal investment in this show so I'm just gonna sit back and popcorn.gif this news story

Ransoms always seem like the worst way to go. Like, your chances of being caught increase tenfold after you get the money.

It amazes me that this doesn't happen more often. The files were pulled from the server of an ADR service; something as small as that makes you realize how many hands in however many companies these files must go through before release. The penalties for that sort of under-handed distribution must be pretty extreme, but still.

Seems like a crap scheme.
I mean, it's not like funds are untraceable.

The person behind this will get caught and either get jail time, or a job offer.

Well this is a new step for piracy.

I'm pretty tempted to watch it, but nah. I'll wait until it's on Netflix.

He might have a case if he said he had Defenders season 1.

I'm sure the Mouse House would play serious hard ball if that happened.

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Originally Posted by Jester (Post 1679834)

I'm sure the Mouse House would play serious hard ball if that happened.

Crap, does The Mouse have the rights to OITNB?
Dude's toast.

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Originally Posted by plastroncafe (Post 1679838)

Crap, does The Mouse have the rights to OITNB?
Dude's toast.

I think he meant in the case of Defenders, which is what Andrew NDB mentioned.

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Originally Posted by Cure (Post 1679840)

I think he meant in the case of Defenders, which is what Andrew NDB mentioned.

OH!
Yeah, that makes far more sense.

I wonder whatever happened to that guy who leaked the Age of Ultron trailer a couple days early.

Probably assassinated by MousekateerOps.

Who names themselves The Dark Overlord? This person has to be a child in their parents basement.

If a child hacked Netflix, I'd be impressed

Netflix would be smart to release the show as soon as possible, sure this may mess up their releases a bit and maybe even a financial quarter they had planned but they have more to lose by ignoring it and keeping the original release date, marketing be damned. I would think Netflix would be smarter than that as they're doing the same mistakes the music industry was over a decade ago and that old media companies do when dealing with leaks.

The ransom would've likely been payed in bitcoin which makes tracking it a lot more difficult and they would've been fine. Hackers have always had silly names like bad guys in movies, that's what makes them so awesome.

Pfft..."The Dark Overlord" name is so cheesy. ::lol:

Reminds me of "Taserface" :tlol: (those who haven't watched Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 won't get this side joke).

Anyway, there will be a reckoning. Pretty stupid to ransom a tv show of all things tbh.