The Biggest Hacking Mystery of Our Time: Shadow Brokers

The Shadow Brokers leaks are one of the pivotal moments in history: not only did they create a massive wave of cybercrime and caused nothing short of a political scandal, they also gave birth to one of the Internet's most enduring mysteries. Who were the Shadow Brokers? How did they pull off one of the craziest hacks of our time? The answer is somewhere out there - and now we are closer to the truth than ever before.

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0:00 Intro
3:27 Chapter 1: Baseline
10:01 Chapter 2: Trigger
14:40 Chapter 3: Execution
32:16 Chapter 4: Post Mortem

Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vS6fmU-8vdcfGgkLDpmyIO7tRuEqSWaXukE-GW2OOOY/edit?tab=t.0

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Credits:
Producer: Ignas Žadeikis
Writer: Valius Venckūnas
Video Editing & Animation: Matas Paskačimas
Narration: Ben Mitchell
Thumbnail: Domantė Janulevičiūtė
Supervising Producer: Aušra Venckutė

Special thanks to:
David Kennedy
Jake Williams
Mattias Wahlen

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