Thursday, 25 May 2017

Disney CEO reports that hackers did not steal Pirates of the Caribbean 5

Earlier this month, reports surfaced that hackers stole Disney’s upcoming film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, threatening to release the film online if a demand for ransom wasn’t met. Speaking to Yahoo! Finance, Disney CEO Bob Iger said that the company had not been hacked, and that the threat was a fake.

“To our knowledge we were not hacked,” he said when asked about the role of technology at Disney. “We had a threat of a hack of a movie being stolen. We decided to take it seriously but not react in the manner in which the person who was threatening us had required.”

Iger described cybersecurity as a “front burner issue” for the company, and that while Disney took the threat of a stolen movie seriously, it declined...

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from
https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/25/15694532/disney-bob-iger-hacker-pirates-of-the-caribbean-hoax-cybersecurity

from
http://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2017/05/disney-ceo-reports-that-hackers-did-not.html

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