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Stef Lach

Billy Corgan paid ransom to hacker who threatened to leak new Smashing Pumpkins songs

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Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan has revealed he had to pay a hacker's ransom to prevent them leaking songs from the band's new three-part rock opera Atum.

Corgan says a hacker somehow got their hands on material from the new release, the third part of which was made available today (May 5).

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