Variety:
An anonymous hacker has carried through on a threat to release “Orange Is the New Black” season five episodes online — after Netflix allegedly failed to respond to the cybercriminal’s shakedown demands.
Good for Netflix. The cost to them is hard to quantify, since it is not likely to impact their subscriber base. And refusing to pay the ransom sends a message to the community and to the hackers which hopefully will help others make a similar “don’t pay the ransom” decision.
The hacker or hackers also have obtained unreleased shows from ABC, Fox, National Geographic and IFC. The content appears to have been stolen in an attack on post-production studio Larson Studios in late 2016, according to piracy-news site TorrentFreak.
Not clear if that other content was released to the pirate sites as well.
Good on Netflix. I doubt having the episodes floating around the web will have any effect on the viewing of this show.
However, perhaps Netflix will want to review security procedures with its vendors going forward.
Unless this group manages to successfully obtain new contents from all content providers for years to come, I don’t think a single breach would hurt any company in any meaningful way.
Speaking of ransoms, what ever happened to those hackers with supposed iCloud account credentials?
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