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How a Gang of Thieves Pulled Off a Multimillion-Dollar Data Center Heist
The New York Times • • business
Key Points:
- Terry Ellis, a seasoned professional thief inspired by crime films, was approached by a fixer named Ray with a high-stakes job involving influential American bankers.
- The task was to break into a Verizon-operated data center in King’s Cross, London, and steal around 80 servers containing evidence of regulatory circumvention in prime mortgage dealings.
- Ellis planned to recruit four computer technicians to safely disable the servers and another associate linked to the client, requiring a total of ten people for the complex heist.
- The operation was notably different from Ellis’s previous jobs due to the technical expertise required and the involvement of powerful financial interests.
