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Disney now calls Pirates 5 ransom threat a hoax

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Photo credit: Disney

From Digital Spy

Disney is no longer convinced that a hacker actually stole a digital copy of its upcoming blockbuster Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge.

Earlier this month, Disney CEO Bob Iger told his staff that one of the company's upcoming blockbusters was in danger of being leaked if a ransom wasn't paid. The film was later identified as Pirates 5.

At the time, the House of Mouse announced it would cooperate with US federal investigators to look into the ransom threat… but it seems to have all been for naught.

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Photo credit: Disney

Bob Iger is now telling Yahoo Finance that Disney ultimately found no credible evidence that Salazar's Revenge had actually ever been stolen.

"To our knowledge we were not hacked," the executive claimed. "We had a threat of a hack of a movie being stolen. We decided to take it seriously but not react in the manner in which the person who was threatening us had required."

Iger then stressed: "We don't believe that it was real and nothing has happened."

That's obviously good for Disney, which has launched a massive market campaign ahead of Johnny Depp's return as the swashbuckler Captain Jack Sparrow.

Photo credit: Disney
Photo credit: Disney

Speaking of Captain Jack, producer Jerry Bruckheimer has recently confirmed that Pirates of the Caribbean will never carry on without Johnny Depp in the lead role.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge - known as Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales in other parts of the world - opens on May 26. Watch the international trailer below:


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