Even in the age of digital piracy and torrent sites, major television leaks arent terribly common.

Clips even began to circulate on TikTok before the episode even aired.

It appears to have originated from a distribution partner in the EMEA region.

Addam of Hull (Clinton Liberty), Jacaerys (Harry Collett), Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D’Arcy), Baela Targaryen (Bethany Antonia), Hugh (Kieran Bew), and Ulf (Tom Bennett) share a meal in Dragonstone

HBO is aggressively monitoring and pulling these copies from the internet.

The clips were posted after an unintentional release from an international third-party distributor.

Season 7 had a couple of episodes leakdue to both hackers and third party distributor error.

Episode 6 leaked after it was accidentally posted early to HBO Nordic and HBO Espana platforms.

Season 8 perhaps had the most consequential leaks of allGame of Thronesseasons.

As withArcane, these episodes are still unfinished and have work to be done before being officially released.

How did someone even leak#HeartstopperS3?…

ughh people are so annoying.

Y’all really couldn’t wait 2 months?

I’m a real fan so I will be patiently waiting for Oct 3rd!

To the people that have seen it already…pic.twitter.com/Y0vNLIjwCA

Beware.

I’ve heard of fake Heartstopper season 3 trailers are being shared, full of clips from the leaks.

I’m just going to avoid any kind of trailers to not accidentally spoil s3 for myself.

This is so awful.

This leak was part of a bigger web connection-spanning attack that also targeted FOX and ABC.