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A look back at the 2007 heist at a Verizon data center in London, underlining the importance of physical data security as cyber defenses grow more sophisticated

New York Times Nathaniel Rich

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  • @nathanielrich Nathaniel Rich on x
    I wrote about one of the real-life data center heists that inspired Cloudthief for @NYTmag: https://www.nytimes.com/...
  • @pgourevitch Philip Gourevitch on bluesky
    terrific caper story by Nathaniel Rich — drawn from research for his novel Cloud Thief which comes out tomorrow:  —  www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/m...
  • @neilturkewitz Neil Turkewitz on bluesky
    Rich astutely observes how imagery of the cloud by tech companies was very deliberate, obscuring the impacts of data collection, storage & use on our lives & planet.  The supposed immateriality allowed tech boosters to claim “information wants to be free,” or that you could be “e…
  • @kenbazinet Ken Bazinet on bluesky
    “Ellis usually worked with a crew of four other professional thieves, but none of them knew much about computers.  For this job, he concluded, he would have to smuggle in four computer technicians who could disable the servers without destroying the data they held,” writes Nathan…
  • @thegamechief Brian Reynolds on bluesky
    A great heist story (and a cautionary tale about the safety of your data in “the cloud") www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/m...