It was reported a couple of weeks back that hackers had apparently managed to steal a copy of Disney’s upcoming blockbuster Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales and that they were threatening to release it online if Disney did not pay their ransom. Those reports may not have been true as Disney CEO Bob Iger has dismissed them.
The reports made it seem that Disney was hacked and that the hackers were able to steal a copy of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. They were said to be seeking a ransom from the company but it wasn’t said how much they wanted Disney to pay them if it didn’t want the movie to be leaked online.
Disney CEO Bob Iger told Yahoo Finance that “To our knowledge we were not hacked.” He did say that the company had a threat of a hack of a movie being stolen and it decided to take the threat seriously. However, the company did not “react in the manner in which the person who was threatening us had required.”
There seemed to be some truth to those reports since something similar happened to Netflix. Hackers were able to get their hands on the latest season of Netflix’s Orange is the New Black which they leaked online after they were not paid.
It was suggested that “an enormous amount of money” was demanded from Disney to ensure that the movie wasn’t leaked online, but it now appears that Disney wasn’t hacked at all and it may have just been an empty threat.
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