Here's your Forbes daily briefing for Saturday September 21st.

Today on Forbes, The Strange Company at the heart of the Lebanon Pager Bomb Mystery.

After Pagers exploded across bomb mystery.

After Pagers exploded across Lebanon on Tuesday in what appears to be an unprecedented act of sabotage by Israel

questions remain over how the country's vaunted spy agencies were able to

infiltrate the Hezbollah supply chain to put booby-trapped pagers and walkie-talkies in the

pockets of as many as 5,000 of its members.

Among the most interesting is the role of BAC consulting,

the Budapest-based company apparently responsible for shipping the Taiwanese branded pagers.

Three intelligence officials told the New York Times that BAC was a front

for Israeli intelligence, making it a crucial cog in the machine that led to the devastating attacks earlier this week.

But what is BAC exactly?

The Hungarian company, which offers a wide range of consulting services related to AI, quote systemic leadership, and

analysis of geospatial data, this all per its website, does not appear to have a history in

electronics manufacturing.

It was co-founded in 2019 by CEO Christina Barcelona Barcelona

Arcedi O'Rzidocono and a Denmark-based business development

consultant called Hansen, according to an

archived version of the company website.

Varsity Arseni Arcedocono and Hanson did not respond to a request for comment

by the time this story was originally published.

As the Financial Times reported, the company earned revenues of about $800,000 in 2023.

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