online after Disney refused to meet hackers ' demandsAttack.Ransom. On 17 May , Softpedia 's Gabriela Vatu reported that two copies of Pirates of the Caribbean : Dead Men Tell No Tales had appeared on the popular ( and somewhat appropriate ) BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay . `` According to the information unearthed thus far , the hackers managed to get accessAttack.Databreachto the systems of Larson Studios in Hollywood , a company that handles additional dialogue recorded for movies . It seems that the copies they 've managed to get their hands on are in various stages of production and not exactly what you 'd expect from a full cinema-ready release . '' News of the extortion attempt first appeared in The Hollywood Reporter on 15 May when Bob Iger , CEO at Walt Disney , revealed the hackers had demandedAttack.Ransomthat Disney payAttack.Ransoma `` huge sum '' in Bitcoins to prevent them from leaking a then-undisclosed movie online . At the time , the attackers said they would release the film incrementally to netizens , first publishing clips lasting only a few minutes and slowly building up to 20-minute segments . Iger said Disney decided to not payAttack.Ransomthe attackers and was working with federal law enforcement to investigate the theft of one of its productions . It 's unclear who exactly perpetrated the leakAttack.Databreach- if indeed the files really are of the movie . Even so , a potential candidate is The Dark Overlord , a group of hackers who released the fifth season of Orange Is the New Black after Netflix refused to meet its ransom demandsAttack.Ransomback in April 2017 . Around that time , the hacking gang , which has also extortedAttack.Ransomnon-film entities in the past , tweeted out that it had stolenAttack.Databreachcontent from a number of other media companies . It did not name Walt Disney by name , though it did point to FOX , ABC , and others . Who is next on the list ? FOX , IFC , NAT GEO , and ABC . Oh , what fun we 're all going to have . We 're not playing any games anymore . While Disney and Netflix continue to work with the FBI in tracking down The Dark Overlord , someone has already removed the two copies of what claimed to be the Pirates of the Caribbean film from The Pirate Bay . The hackers could release the movies again . Or they might be focusing on their next target . While movie-goers might celebrate a leak of the movie , media companies like Walt Disney do n't want viewers gaining early access to their content . That 's why organizations should take the opportunity to conduct some security awareness training with their employees . This effort should include phishingAttack.Phishingsimulations and reviewing the security readiness of companies along their supply chains . Article updated 19 May 2017 . None of the files made available as downloadable torrents have been confirmed to contain footage of the movie . For more discussion on the issue , make sure to listen to this recent episode of the `` Smashing Security '' podcast . Your browser does not support this audio element .
Unfortunately , Yahoo did n't , according to a new internal investigation . The internet pioneer , which reported a massive data breachAttack.Databreachinvolving 500 million user accounts in September , actually knew an intrusionAttack.Databreachhad occurred back in 2014 , but allegedly botched its response . The findings were made in a Yahoo securities exchange filing on Wednesday that offered more details about the 2014 breach , which the company has blamed on a state-sponsored hacker . That breachAttack.Databreach, which only became public last year , involved the theftAttack.Databreachof user account details such as email addresses , telephone numbers , and hashed passwords . After Yahoo went public with it , the company established an independent committee to investigate the matter . The committee found that Yahoo ’ s security team and senior executives actually knew that a state-sponsored actor had hacked certain user accounts back in 2014 , according to the filing . But even as the company took some remedial actions , such as notifying 26 users targeted in the hack and adding new security features , some senior executives allegedly failed to comprehend or investigate the incident further . For instance , in December 2014 , Yahoo 's security team knew the state-sponsored actor had stolenAttack.Databreachcopies of backup files that contained users ' personal data . But it 's unclear whether this information was ever `` effectively communicated and understood '' outside the security team , Wednesday 's filing said . No intentional suppression of information was found , although Yahoo 's legal team had enough reason to investigate the breaches further , the committee concluded . `` As a result , the 2014 security Incident was not properly investigated and analyzed at the time , '' the filing said . It was only about two years later when Yahoo publicly disclosed the breach . That came after a stolen database from the company allegedly went upAttack.Databreachfor sale on the black market . However , after Yahoo disclosed the breachAttack.Databreach, a few months later , the company learned of an even bigger hackAttack.Databreachthat involved 1 billion Yahoo user accounts and further rocked the company 's reputation . That breachAttack.Databreachoriginally occurred in August 2013 but wasn ’ t noticed until law enforcement provided Yahoo with a copy of the stolen data last November . According to Wednesday 's filing , Yahoo still hasn ’ t learned how this data was stolenAttack.Databreach, although it appears to be separate from the 2014 breach . In addition , the company has been investigating an another incident involving a hacker forging cookies as a way to break into user accounts . Wednesday 's filing said that about 32 million user accounts were affected .