Subject: MLP Leaks - CONFIDENTIAL
From: "Gianetti, Ed" <[email-masked]>
To: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2017 12:27:49 -0400

Hi Lisa,

We basically had three leaks of MLP content, an MLP Movie work print with watermark, an MLP Movie higher resolution quality (200gb+) version which was found in an online cache of MLP leaked content by a LionsGate authorized 3rd party vendor
and MLP TV Scripts (watermarked and unwatermarked) and unaired TV episodes.  We believe there is a potential of more content to be leaked by this “hacker”, Bighckintosh (see 3rd attachment above).

Nick Matlach from my office will also be sending you related intelligence files, etc. to assist you in your review.

At this point in time, we believe the scale is being tipped to indicate our business partner, DHX (Canada) is the source of the leak. Either someone internally there is downloading these files and leaking them or someone has hacked into
their system. We are currently conducting our own internal forensics of our servers, etc. but to date no discrepancy of Hasbro’s systems has been found. At this time the documents that have leaked appear to be original to DHX.

At this time, we are seeking from you an evaluation of the circumstances and from an IP enforcement perspective your recommendations and strategy, either civilly or criminally, to enforce our IP rights and how to approach DHX with a game
plan to preserve evidence, etc. As you can see this may involve the US, Canada and
possibly a Russian hacker.

As always, myself, Nick and Rob are available to discuss and answer any questions you may have.

SYNOPSIS:

MLP MOVIE LEAK

The leaked movie is our HD asset. It had a letterbox look given that it’s a 2:40 aspect ratio within a 16:9 frame. The leaked MLP movie appears to be a work print, not a final master. We received a “current cut” of the movie from
DHX that was clean and included a watermark as shown in the images  provided.

MLP MOVIE HIGHER RESOLUTION LEAK

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A higher resolution quality (200gb+) version has been found in an online cache of MLP leaked content online by a LionsGate 3rd party vendor.

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Within the cache there are also screen captures of an earlier version of the movie with burned in watermark information. This information includes an IP Address (208.87.44.35) which resolves to outbound.hasbro.com. There is also
a username THOMPSE and creation date stamp of 8/16/2017 with an upload date stamp of 8/17/2017 @ 15:53.  Hasbro employee, Emily Thompson, claims this is from the July 2016 screener, pulled by her in August of 2016. This will be harder than anticipated as her
email archives won’t go back that far, and if she was just sending it to the studio she wouldn’t have logged it. (At that point in time, she had no direct contact with DHX at all.)

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Other materials are also included within this cache such as scripts and non-Lionsgate materials.

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It contains the same 8 second countdown with the MLP Movie Logo in the lower right hand corner as the HD version above.

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Attached (1&2) are two files providing an inventory of the contents found on the repository relating to MLP movie.

MLP LEAK – SCRIPTS and UNAIRED EPISODES

See 4th attachment above. Hasbro Studio employee, Leslie Wishnevski is our employee in Burbank, Ca and it is her watermarked scripts only that leaked. The leaked scripts pages
are not Word docs, they are Final Draft (.rtf) files. The only people who would have clean, final draft versions of scripts are the writers (who use Final Draft to write the scripts) and DHX. When DHX delivers to Hasbro Studio or to Hasbro RI, they only send
watermarked PDF’s.

Below is some other intelligence information gathered during the investigation:

https://www.equestriadaily.com/2017/10/the-show-bible-leak-and-you-be-careful.html?m=1

Here's the post:
https://www.ponychan.net/pony/res/36827048.html

Also to note: is a Julian Hutzler, the person who was recently hosting the entire movie and other official material at
http://iwatchitfortheplot.romesilvanus.io/, is once again intending to host leaked/confidential material. We believe he is probably just reposting from Bighckintosh.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/julian-hutzler-714bb243

He also operates khaosmedia.com and derpy.horse:

Julian Hutzler

Address:

Jakobsweg 44

8046 Graz, Wien

AUSTRIA

Phone: 436642501314

Fax: 43125330333171