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Last Week Tonight's Twitter appears to have been hacked
- Thread starter ElectricBlanketFire
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ShaoranWright
Member
Damn HBO, they really got you by the balls.
Game of Thrones and the official HBO one as well.
https://twitter.com/GameOfThrones/status/898013966370263043
https://twitter.com/HBO/status/898017157807833088
https://twitter.com/GameOfThrones/status/898013966370263043
https://twitter.com/HBO/status/898017157807833088
yanipheonu
Member
Gotta love the logic.
"Nah man, I just sprayed graffiti on your building to check if your security worked."
"Nah man, I just sprayed graffiti on your building to check if your security worked."
Spectromixer
Member
Lol watch the game of thrones account start tweeting spoilers
Random Human
They were trying to grab your prize. They work for the mercenary. The masked man.
Did they have a "passwords.txt" file lying around?
Gordon Shumway
Banned
Stop hating Nazis, Oliver! Who's with me?!
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
This is borderline
HBO's security team needs some top level computer engineers and scientists specialized in web security (for HBO at least). I mean, I get it, you have thousands of hackers eager to get content not even for blackmail, but this is like the 10th hack in the last year. Being able to google stackoverflow for simple algorithms doesn't cut it for this sort of job.
Ploid 3.0
Member
What spoilers? Unless people saw future episodes.
PepperedHam
Member
Lol I unfollowed for now for this very reason.
The upcoming episode aired/leaked early. And who knows what else the hackers have.
A pristine HBO Go web rip of this Sunday's episode has been online for hours.
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
Their Facebook pages also got hacked
newtypepilot
Member
your HBO subscription does go towards better security lol
it'll be hilarious if whoever hacked it started posting ep6 spoilers
it'll be hilarious if whoever hacked it started posting ep6 spoilers
hodayathink
Member
Scripts have been leaked for a while, though.
And I'm kinda shocked that accounts like that wouldn't have 2 factor activated.
Ok, now this is embarrassing. All the sites provide 2FA and yet this happens.
Revolutionary
Member
Oh, so the 'fake' spoilers that people were spamming on Twitch earlier were real. Great lol
Seems unusual that almost everything associated with HBO was hacked tho.
Not necessarily. If you looked up the plot leaks (from several months ago) and compared them to all officially released episodes you can draw your own conclusion. People can say whatever they want on the internet - don't believe everything you read.
ElectricBlanketFire
Member
I don't see anything unusual on their Facebook page.
Good point.
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
Lord Morairty007
Member
Once a wise man said. "What hurts you, only makes you stronger."
ElectricBlanketFire
Member
Prototype Viktor
Member
1.8k likes, nope no fakeness on that site
Azure Dream
Member
"Testing security" means "HBO hasn't changed their passwords on Twitter and possibly Facebook in a while"? Unless they have a method HBO uses to generate passwords. Which can be changed pretty simply.
Dash_Riprock
Member
And here I thought Hollywood learned their lesson after Sony.
They probably just changed their passwords from "password" to "password123"
They probably just changed their passwords from "password" to "password123"
TheBaldEmperor
Member
For real???
Sometimes people who find exploits are paid by companies by making them aware of security holes (so they can promptly fix it) so it isn't that outlandish. Google will give you quite a hefty sum if you find a way in.
Then again, other companies are not so amiable and see it as a crime so your mileage may vary.
