HBO hacks and leaks: How much have they hurt the business?

LOS ANGELES: HBO has endured an uncomfortable bummer of a summer of hacks and episodes of original series leaking out into the Internet wild, including from its tentpole Game of Thrones franchise. 

The cyber-chaos – whether driven by money, mischief, malice or just plain mistakes – may well continue: It’s possible that whoever was behind the massive hack of the programmer’s networks perpetrated in July has additional data dumps in store. The anonymous hacker, who has called himself ”Mr Smith” in some communiques, has demanded millions in ransom payments from HBO.