FOUR INDIVIDUALS HAVE been arrested by Indian police for their alleged involvement with the leak of the fourth episode of the current season of HBO’s Game of Thrones.
A Digital TV report says that episode four of the series appeared online three days before its scheduled airing, bearing a Star India watermark. Three of the arrested individuals were current employees of Prime Focus Technologies (PFT), the technology unit of post-production outfit Prime Focus Studios, while the fourth was a former employee. PFT has been a partner of Star India since 2011.
PFT issued a statement saying it had investigated the leak and provided evidence to the Mumbai police’s cybercrime unit, resulting in the arrests.
This development follows the separate major cyber-attack on HBO at the start of August, in which hackers stole information about a forthcoming episode of Game of Thrones and other content.
