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A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

The Lazarus Heist, Season 2

The Lazarus Group—the North Korean Dark Web organization behind the infamous 2014 Sony Pictures hack—is back, and they are bolder, smarter, and more insidious than ever. Journalists Jean Lee and Geoff White return for the second season of their Peabody-nominated podcast, The Lazarus Heist, to investigate the group’s recent criminal activity—specifically, the infamous 2018 A.T.M. hack. In just over two hours, the group withdrew nearly $14 million from A.T.M.’s across 28 countries. Lee sums up the ensuing investigation with a single question: “How do you organize such a carefully synchronized global flash mob of crime?” And so unfolds the details of a heist so audacious, it could be the script of an Ocean’s movie. —Paulina Prosnitz