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By SecureWorld News Team
Mon | Aug 14, 2017 | 2:56 PM PDT

Following the news that HBO was breached, a separate leak occurred that led to an unaired Game of Thrones episode being published online.

Now it's been revealed that personal phone numbers and addresses of the Game of Thrones actors have also been leaked online as a result of the HBO hack.

Both email and physical addresses have surfaced for the entire cast of season seven, which includes Peter Dinklage, Lena Headey, and Emilia Clarke.

According to the Guardian, only 3.4 GB of files have been released so far, compared to the 1.5 terabytes taken in the original hack.

Along with the personal contact information, the hackers have also leaked a month of emails from HBO’s VP for film programming, Leslie Cohen, as well as internal and admin passwords from the network.

But it's not enough just to leak private data from the cast, or to publish poorly uploaded previews of the show; the hackers have also made a ransom demand to HBO's CEO, Richard Plepler.

The attackers are claiming it took six months to break into HBO's network, so they are demanding a six-month salary of at least $6 million in Bitcoin, according to Graham Cluley.

The zero-day exploits alone they purchased to hack the system supposedly cost $500,000 each year.

While the Sony hack has been referenced multiple times in relation to this breach, the leak of HBO information is a far cry from what happened in 2014.

Let's hope Kit Harington doesn't get too many personal phone calls over this one.

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