“We regret that for a short time Amazon customers in Germany were able to access episode two of season eight of Game of Thrones,” an Amazon spokesman said “This was an error and has been rectified,” Amazon added.
The second installment of the eighth and final series was not supposed to be available for streaming until Sunday evening. But some Amazon Prime members were able to watch it several hours before that.
It may have been taken down soon after it was uploaded, but it was long enough for many fans to view the whole episode. As a result, screengrabs and plot details started appearing online before the official broadcast which led to fans worrying about accidentally coming across spoilers and others sharing bootleg links of how to view the leaked episode.
However, plenty of people had some fun with the leak. US singer Mariah Carey suggested that she was about to post some “major Game of Thrones spoilers” on Twitter… before going on to upload a picture of herself on the Iron Throne.
A spokesman for AT&T, which owns the service, said: “Apparently our system was as excited as we are for Game of Thrones tonight and gave a few DirecTV Now customers early access to the episode by mistake. “When we became aware of the error, we immediately fixed it
