Mumbai: Four men arrested for allegedly leaking Game of Thrones episodes
4 arrested in Mumbai on suspicion of leaking Game of Thrones
Police said three accused worked for Prime Focus Technologies, Reuters reported.
Mumbai police arrested four people late on Tuesday on suspicion of leaking unaired episodes of the hitHBO series "Game of Thrones".
Police said the three accused worked for Prime Focus Technologies, Reuters reported.
Prime Focus Technologies is a Mumbai-based company that helps to stream the popular series on Hotstar,a Star India app.
The police said the fourth accused is an employee of Prime Focus Technologies.
"We received a complaint from Prime Focus Technologies regarding the leaking of episode 4, series 7," Akbar Pathan, deputy commissioner of police in the Mumbai cyber crime unit, told Reuters.
The accused appeared in court and were remanded to police custody till August 21.
Meanwhile, hackers released more unaired episodes of Game of Thrones on Sunday.
Time Warner's HBO said that it was "not in communication with the hacker, and we're not going to comment every time a new piece of information is released."
Hackers claim they have confidential material including scripts of the programme, contracts, human resources documents and budget details, Mashable reported last week.
'Dragonstone', the first episode of season 7 increased HBO subscribers by almost 6 million as the show attracted 16.1 million viewers overall. (WION)