The Athens Shadow Games – Darknet Diaries

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Vodafone Greece is the largest telecom provider in Greece. But in 2004 a scandal within the company would pin them to be top of the news cycle in Greece for weeks. Hackers got in the network. And what they were after took everyone by surprise.

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Darknet Diaries is created by Jack Rhysider.

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JACK: [GREEK] Do you remember the Olympics of 2004?

ANNCR: Citizens of the world, welcome to Athens.

JACK: It was in Athens, Greece where the first Olympics ever took place.

ANNCR: Olympic Games, welcome back to Greece. [CHEERING] [GREEK]

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