How A Gang of Thieves Pulled Off a Multimillion-Dollar Data Center Heist
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#4It’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?
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#5It’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?
Nope. THe story doesn't make any sense at all.
They stole about 5 milion dollars worth of computer equipment, which depending on how it's purchased is either a single cabinet of storage or a few cabinets of compute, which is largely worthless on the resale market, or if you believe the criminals, they were stealing evidence of illegal activities of the "bankers".
The story is way too sexed up and hollywood'd
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#6It’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?
Nope. THe story doesn't make any sense at all. They stole about 5 milion dollars worth of computer equipment, which depending on how it's purchased is either a single cabinet of storage or a few cabinets of compute, which is largely worthless on the resale market, or if you believe the criminals, they were stealing evidence of illegal activities of the "bankers". The story is way too sexed up and hollywood'd
And we are to believe they don't have FDE on their application servers?
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#7It’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?
Your confusion doesn't make any sense. The point was to steal a copy of the data, not prevent the original owners from having the data any more.
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#8It’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?
Nope. THe story doesn't make any sense at all. They stole about 5 milion dollars worth of computer equipment, which depending on how it's purchased is either a single cabinet of storage or a few cabinets of compute, which is largely worthless on the resale market, or if you believe the criminals, they were stealing evidence of illegal activities of the "bankers". The story is way too sexed up and hollywood'd
Sounds like a really awful attempt at writing a Mr Robot sequel.
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#9It’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?
Your confusion doesn't make any sense. The point was to steal a copy of the data, not prevent the original owners from having the data any more.
> The bankers “were involved in prime mortgages” and had “circumnavigated” certain regulations.
> Ellis’s assignment was to break into the data center and steal around 80 servers that hosted the incriminating files
The hit was contracted by the bankers who broke the law. Why would they need a copy of the evidence?
If the goal was to know what the prosecution has on them they took the worst route. Hiring petty criminals to steal the damn servers and giving them more details than they need to know is a stupid idea. Instead of hacking the data out of the servers (which would have been even easier in 2007), you now have a trail of inconvenient witnesses who can't wait to spill the secrets for a lighter sentence. He might have been just a decoy for something bigger.
The story smells like a book promotion and a petty criminal further bolstering a high profile (but stupid) robbery.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nope. THe story doesn't make any sense at all. They stole about 5 milion dollars worth of computer equipment, which depending on how it's purchased is either a single cabinet of storage or a few cabinets of compute, which is largely worthless on the resale market, or if you believe the criminals, they were stealing evidence of illegal activities of the "bankers". The story is way too sexed up and hollywood'd
And we are to believe they don't have FDE on their application servers?
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