Introducing The Lazarus Heist

The Lazarus Heist

BBC

Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2021

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

The most daring bank theft ever attempted? From hacking Hollywood to a billion-dollar plot. North Korea stands accused but says it had nothing to do with it and it’s part of the United States’ attempts to tarnish its image. Premieres 19 April 2021. A true crime investigation with Geoff White and Jean Lee.

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0:00.0	Imagine you were going to break into a bank and try to steal one billion dollars.
0:06.0	How would you put it off?
0:08.0	Well, first you need to assemble the right crew.
0:12.0	These attackers have no fear.
0:15.0	They started out on the streets.
0:17.0	Stolen cars, counterfeit pharmaceuticals, weapons, crystal meth deal.
0:22.0	They would have killed me and they found out.
0:25.0	But then they took their crime online.
0:27.0	They have their own kind of laptops. They kind of live in what you would call it a hacker warehouse or a hacker dorm.
0:32.0	The door opened. It's just dead silence.
0:35.0	And that's when I discovered that this was no one has the hacker hotel.
0:40.0	They turned the internet into a battleground.
0:43.0	A holy cow moment. This is what they've stolen.
0:46.0	Rampaging through the network.
0:48.0	There was chaos.
0:50.0	Leaving victims' lives in ruins.
0:53.0	I was googling myself and my legs getting numb is kind of like too late.
0:58.0	Forever on pain for it. It was over for me.
1:01.0	Then they go off to a bank.
1:03.0	No one in the right mind. No cyber criminal had tried to transfer one billion dollars.
1:09.0	How in the world did this happen?
1:11.0	It was astounding.
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