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Podcast: Chaos Computer Club - recent events feed
Episode: APT Down and the mystery of the burning data centers (39c3)
Description: In August 2025 Phrack published the dump of an APT member's workstation. It was full of exploits and loot from government networks, cell carriers and telcos.
The dump sparked a government investigation, and corpos like LG and Korea Telecom were asked to explain themselves. Hours before an onsite audit, the data center mysteriously caught fire, destroying almost a hundred servers. Then another data center burned - and unfortunately, there was even one death.
The talk aims to revisit this mysterious sequence of tragic incidents.
[TW: Suicide, self-harm]
In August 2025 Phrack published the dump of an APT member's workstation. The attacker was...