How a Gang of Thieves Pulled Off a Multimillion-Dollar Data Center Heist
I examined the Verizon heist while researching my novel Cloudthief, uncovering the story of Terry Ellis, a mastermind who drew inspiration from crime films like Ocean's Eleven. His crew executed a daring theft of valuable servers from a secure data center, proving that the world's most critical digital assets are vulnerable to physical robbery by a well-planned team.
The world's most valuable assets are stored on rows of servers in giant, anonymous buildings, and they can be stolen.
- larrymcp
One question, how did they know which specific servers to take? That would've required some interesting research / espionage ahead of time, but the article didn't mention that part of the job.
- jagged-chisel
> Nathaniel Rich. I am a novelist, […]
See Cloudthief here https://nathanielrich.com/books/
- huitzitziltzin
It’s kind of a fun story but it doesn’t make sense. Was that the only data in a data center in the world that’s not backed up elsewhere? Did I miss that part?