Pirates pirate Pirates of the Caribbean 5 and demand ransom from Disney
Hackers claim to have stolen the upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean film and are demanding that Disney pay a ransom or else have it released online, according to The Hollywood Reporter and Deadline.
While there doesn’t appear to be proof yet that hackers have actually taken the movie, the series of events closely mirrors what happened a few weeks ago with Orange is the New Black, when hackers claimed to have taken the show’s upcoming season and then released it after Netflix declined to pay a ransom.
The hackers are demanding “an enormous amount of money,” according to Deadline, and are asking that it be paid in Bitcoin, which would make it much harder to trace. The Reporter says that the hackers said they…
