Did a Chinese hack kill Nortel? (2020)
I grew up in the Ottawa area. I remember watching so many friends' and classmates' parents suddenly go from successful to unemployed. What's worse, their pension plan was mostly invested in Nortel stock. They lost their jobs and their retirement. Most of these people were in their late 40s already.There weren't other companies to hire them all. Ottawa's tech scene was mostly Nortel. Without it, what could they all do with the skillsets they had? One close friend of mine, his dad became a cabinet maker. Just started over entirely.Was it Huawei? Hard to say. But whoever hacked Nortel attacked my community, in my mind.