The HBO hacker is back in the spotlight. Just a week ago, a hacker (or heckers) leaked the scripts for the episodes of his last four series Game of Thrones, but also the personal castphone numbers of the series. 
Today, the hacker released an email he received from HBO executives offering him $250.000 as part of the preletterof the bug bounty.
The programs bug bounty είναι συνήθως ανταμοιβές μετρητών που προσφέρονται σε ethical hackers που υποδεικνύουν ελαττώματα ασφαλείας σε εταιρικά συστήματα. Αυτός ο hacker, ωστόσο, εκμεταλλεύτηκε το ελάττωμα σε μια προσπάθεια να προκαλέσει βλάβη στο HBO, και έτσι είναι πολύ περίεργο που το δίκτυο προσπαθεί να τον ανταμείψει.
The traffic seems to be one game to buy time for HBO to understand the full extent of the breach.
But we have to ask ourselves whether a network offers such a sum to avoid a bigger disaster, what amounts are at stake with the leaks that companies like Sony, something we have seen in recent years.
This "bug bounty", after all, seems more like a ransom than a reward.
