Computer running Windows 7 was to blame for Orange Is the New Black hack: ransom $A178,000

IF you ever needed encouragement to upgrade from Windows 7, being held ransom for $A178,000 should do the trick.

This was the lesson learnt by the company responsible for allowing unreleased episodes of Orange Is the New Black to be obtained and then leaked by hacker s earlier this year.

“They were basically just trolling around to see if they could find a computer that they could open,” he told Variety. “It wasn’t aimed at us.”

In a candid interview, Larson Studios chief engineer David Dondorf explained how the audio post-production business allowed The Dark Overlord to gain access to the Netflix original content.

After hiring private data security experts to find where the company was breached, it was discovered the hacker had been searching the internet for PCs running older versions of Windows and stumbled across an old computer at Larson Studios still running Windows 7…

Source: How Windows 7 led to a $178,000 ransom