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HBO Max

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

May 2, 2025

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for HBO Max2 incidents on file

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Shinyhunters on its public extortion blog. It has not been validated by the victim or any regulator. Treat attribution and counts as the threat actor's assertion until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure corroborates them.

Group activity: TelecommunicationDiscovered: 2025-10-03

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

HBO Max is a premium streaming service offered by Home Box Office, Inc., a subsidiary of WarnerMedia Entertainment. Launched in 2020, it delivers a vast library of personalized content like original series, theatrical films, and specials directly to viewers. It combines HBO's content with shows, movies, and originals from Warner Bros., DC, CNN, TNT, TBS, and more.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

May 2, 2025

Claim posted

No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Unverified claimView incident

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claimThis record

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filing

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

No regulatory filing corroborates this yet — it is the attacker's own assertion. Watch this entity to be notified the moment a filing corroborates or contradicts it.

Source ceiling

  • actor name
  • victim claim
  • ransom/leak status
  • discovery date
  • materiality
  • notification
  • affected count
  • confirmed data types
  • compliance clock

The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.

About this groupFirst seen 2024-04-23

shinyhunters

According to ransomware.live, ShinyHunters is a financially motivated data-theft and extortion group active since 2020, responsible for high-profile breaches including Ticketmaster (via Snowflake) and PowerSchool; by 2025 they launched a RaaS offering called "shinysp1d3r," and in August 2025 French authorities arrested four members.

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