S2.5 ‘Olympic Destroyer’

The Lazarus Heist

BBC

Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Hackers attack the Winter Olympics, during the opening ceremony in South Korea. Who is responsible? Fingers point to North Korea but it has joined forces with its neighbour and even sent a team. Why would they want to sabotage it? What’s going on? #LazarusHeist

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0:00.0	Like a lot of stories on the Lazarus Highest podcast, this one starts with a message offering
0:07.0	an opportunity that seems too good to be true.
0:10.3	They reached out via email.
0:13.0	It seemed so out of left field.
0:15.0	I just didn't actually believe that it was true.
0:17.2	I thought it was maybe a scam or a very specific hoax-hoseong kind.
0:23.4	This is Randy Griffin.
0:25.2	She's a data scientist based in Boston and a former college ice hockey star.
0:29.8	This email is offering something she dreamed of since she was a girl.
0:33.6	A chance to play ice hockey at the Olympic Games.
0:36.4	Playing in the Olympics was just this naive childish dream.
0:39.6	A dream I pretty much gave up on.
0:42.7	Randy's dream was to play for Team USA, but this email seems to be coming from a South
0:47.4	Korean hockey official.
0:50.6	It's offering you the chance to try out for the host nation's team for the 2018 Winter
0:55.0	Olympics in Pyongchang, South Korea.
0:58.0	Her mother was born there, but Randy's American.
1:00.3	She never even been to Korea.
1:02.1	So the whole thing seems pretty bizarre and a bit sketchy.
1:05.2	I ignored the first round of emails actually just thinking it wasn't real.
1:10.4	It wasn't until they went as far as to find my dad's phone number, call him, ask him why
1:15.8	I wasn't answering my email.
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