alt Hacker NewsYour confusion doesn't make any sense. The point was to steal a copy of the data, not prevent the original owners from having the data any more.
Your confusion doesn't make any sense. The point was to steal a copy of the data, not prevent the original owners from having the data any more.
> The bankers “were involved in prime mortgages” and had “circumnavigated” certain regulations.
> Ellis’s assignment was to break into the data center and steal around 80 servers that hosted the incriminating files
The hit was contracted by the bankers who broke the law. Why would they need a copy of the evidence?
If the goal was to know what the prosecution has on them they took the worst route. Hiring petty criminals to steal the damn servers and giving them more details than they need to know is a stupid idea. Instead of hacking the data out of the servers (which would have been even easier in 2007), you now have a trail of inconvenient witnesses who can't wait to spill the secrets for a lighter sentence. He might have been just a decoy for something bigger.
The story smells like a book promotion and a petty criminal further bolstering a high profile (but stupid) robbery.