Similarly, the season 2 finale was found on X (formerly Twitter) and TikTok the week before it aired after another leak from a third party international distributor. Episode 8 was originally not going to be made available to the press in early screeners, just as episode 10 of season 1 wasn’t, but after the leak, HBO changed course and granted press access.
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Episodes of Seasons 5, 7, 8
Game of Thrones’ final seasons were so plagued by episode leaks that eventually HBO ceased to offer advanced screeners to the press. Season 5 had the first four episodes leaked onto torrent sites, reportedly copied from DVDs sent out to the press, though that wasn’t confirmed.
Season 7 had a couple of episodes leak due to both hackers and third party distributor error. The fourth episode of the season was leaked after a data breach occurred at Star India, HBO’s distributor for the country. Episode 6 leaked after it was accidentally posted early to HBO Nordic and HBO España platforms. Though unrelated to the Star India breach and the larger hack that HBO suffered in the U.S., the episode still made the rounds on Reddit, YouTube, and torrent sites before HBO realized their error and removed it.
Season 8 perhaps had the most consequential leaks of all Game of Thrones seasons. The first two episodes were accidentally posted online in full by DirecTV and Prime Video Germany, respectively, for a brief time, while episodes 3 and 4 had still pictures and clips from the episodes leak online, revealing the death of a major character.
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Unfinished Episodes from Season 2
