HBO Investigating Hack of Its Twitter Accounts

 By ALEX JOHNSON 

HBO said Wednesday night that it was researching the hacking of a few of the link channel's Twitter accounts, which came as the organization is endeavoring to make sense of how scenes of its megahit arrangement "Round of Thrones" and different materials were released on the web. 

The records of a few HBO arrangement, including "A week ago Tonight with John Oliver," "Genuine Blood," "Veep" and "Vinyl," tweeted a message Wednesday night indicating to be from the infamous OurMine programmers. It gave the idea that exclusive U.S.- based records were influenced — @HBOUK and @HBOCanada seemed to rise unscathed, for instance. 

HBO recaptured control of the records inside around 40 minutes and erased the tweets, which NBC News filed before they were brought down: 

HBO disclosed to NBC News late Wednesday just that "we are exploring." 

OurMine, in some cases called OurMine Team, has been rebuked for assuming control web-based social networking and other online records of a few conspicuous individuals and foundations over the most recent 2½ years or thereabouts, including those of Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai, Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, Wikipedia fellow benefactor Jimmy Wales, BuzzFeed and TechCrunch. Large portions of the messages reflected those that were posted Wednesday night 

OurMine is mysterious, and it couldn't be resolved Wednesday night whether it was, indeed, behind the HBO hack. In all of Wednesday night's tweets, the name "OurMine" was rendered with swoon emphasize marks — as "Our⁻Mi⁻ne," not "OurMine" — a development that the programmers aren't known to have utilized some time recently. 

HBO said it didn't have enough data to talk about that. 

In October 2016, BuzzFeed posted a story connecting OurMine Team to a young Saudi programmer. BuzzFeed was hacked the following day, with an article showing up on the site obviously posted by OurMine