GoT star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau has a solution to leaks

Aseries of hacks and leaks recently rocked American TV network HBO and its hit show Game of Thrones (GoT). Actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (above), who plays Jaime Lannister in the fantasy drama series, says that the network should go back to old-school ways of distribution to guard its content.

In an interview to EW Morning Live, the actor said, “I think they’re basically going to go back to handdelivering and just giving us scripts... Just give us the hard copies instead of all this email and digital stuff. I think that’s what’s going to happen in a few years’ time, because you know, you talk to cops on the street, ‘What’s the biggest crime now?’ It’s all credit card fraud. It’s all that stuff. It’s digital. So we got to go back to cash.”

Coster-Waldau added that the hacks are ironic, because due to the popularity of the series, the actors had to set up multiple e-mail accounts in order to receive the scripts in a protected way. “They had to be triple and quadruple (checked). All this stuff, right? And, of course, now they have this big hack,” he said.

The TV network has been dealing with anonymous hackers, who claim to have stolen 1.5 terabytes of data — including emails, show scripts and unaired episodes of hit series such as GoT, Ballers and Room 104 — from the company’s servers and have threatened to release it if their ransom demands are not met.

So far, two episodes of Game of Thrones have leaked, in addition to episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm, script summaries of GoT and one executive’s emails. HBO’s social media accounts were also hacked recently.