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How A Gang of Thieves Pulled Off a Multimillion-Dollar Data Center Heist

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/magazine/data-center-heist.html
17•chirau•5d ago

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chirau•5d ago
https://archive.is/QUHSw
boveyking•5d ago
thanks. It is my first time knowing the way to break paywall.
huitzitziltzin•31m ago
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?
paleotrope•25m ago
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

samlinnfer•24m ago
And we are to believe they don't have FDE on their application servers?
giancarlostoro•16m ago
Sounds like a really awful attempt at writing a Mr Robot sequel.
fzzzy•19m ago
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.
buran77•13m ago
> 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?

The story smells like a book promotion.

fzzzy•11m ago
Ok good point.
larrymcp•8m ago
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.
swader999•7m ago
I was hoping for a story where they took all the bank loan data and the backups.

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