NEW YORK CITY — Season 7 of Game of Thrones is currently in full swing, breaking viewership records, but also causing a digital headache for HBO, because even hackers want in on that Westerosi realness. <br /> <br />CBS reports that the entertainment giant's first hit came at the end of July, when 1.5 terabytes of data were stolen from their U.S. servers. <br /> <br />Hacker group "Mr. Smith" got their hands on employee emails, show scripts, and multiple show episodes. They released unaired episodes of Ballers and Room 104 online, then asked for a $7.5 million bitcoin ransom in exchange for no more spoilers. <br /> <br />But like Jon Snow, HBO refused to bend the knee, and instead offered a $250,000 "bug bounty" to stall Mr. Smith while the situation was assessed. <br /> <br />In early August, a distribution partner in India leaked the fourth episode of Game of Thrones online. And just this week, HBO Nordic in Spain accidentally aired an hour of episode 6. Oops! <br /> <br />The latest security woe comes courtesy of a group called OurMine, who breached HBO's Twitter account and the Game of Thrones Facebook fanpage to very kindly inform them that their security sucks. <br /> <br />OurMine seems to be a white hat hacker group whose pet peeve is lax security. Still, no one can argue that HBO just can't catch a break. <br /> <br />Pity they don't have a fire-breathing dragon to defeat their enemies.
