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The Documentary Podcast

Introducing: The Lazarus Heist

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2021

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Hacking Hollywood and the billion-dollar plot. Hear all about our new original podcast. Search for The Lazarus Heist wherever you find your podcasts.

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Transcript

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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 pull 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 had they found out.

0:25.2

But then they took their crime online.

0:27.3

They have their own kind of laptops.

0:28.8

They kind of live in what you would call like a hacker warehouse or a hacker dorm.

0:32.6

The door opened.

0:33.6

She was just dead silence.

0:35.2

And that's when I discovered that this was

0:37.2

known as the hacker hotel.

0:39.6

They turned the internet into a battleground.

0:43.2

A holy cow moment, this is what they've stolen.

0:46.6

Rampaging through the network.

0:48.8

There was chaos.

0:50.0

Leaving victims lives in ruins.

0:52.6

Googling myself and my legs getting like numb is kind of like too late.

0:58.0

Forever I'm paying for it.

0:59.6

It was over for me.

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