This is not a story of a blockbuster hack or a massive data breach. It is a modern internet folklore tale, a rabbit hole that, for a brief time, consumed tech forums, file-sharing sites, and community-driven wikis.
Technically minded users who analyzed the file discovered that it was, in fact, a —likely the result of someone attempting to archive a massive, unorganized collection of junk data (memes, corrupt images, cache files) onto a failing hard drive, and then compressing it without checking its integrity. bobae.7z
Users who downloaded and extracted the file (often in a virtual machine, due to the paranoia surrounding unknown, compressed files) reported a bizarre, almost surreal experience. This is not a story of a blockbuster