HBO Offered Hackers $250,000 As Ransom to Prevent More Leaks

Does anyone remember in the mid 1990s The Net starring Sandra Bullock? Well a myself and a few of my geek friends tried to tell our programming professors that this day was coming. At that time, Microsoft was eating up every software developer. Did you know that Harvard thought Bill Gates was not intelligent enough to graduate? Well who's buying who's software? And who is laughing all the way to the bank? In fact, I read something where Bill Gates acknowledges that the new technology is leaps and bounds in pioneering compared to when Microsoft pioneered. I summarized what I read.