Iran-based hacker charged with trying to extort HBO over stolen show scripts

NEW YORK — An Iran-based hacker plotted to extort HBO out of $6 million by threatening to release stolen episodes and scripts of hit shows such as “Game of Thrones,” at one point taunting the network with a twist on a catch phrase from that series: “Winter is coming. HBO is falling.”
An indictment filed Tuesday in federal court in Manhattan accuses Behzad Mesri of hacking into the cable network’s computer system in New York. It says he