In the early 1980s, whispers spread of Polybius—an arcade game so strange it allegedly caused hallucinations, memory loss, and visits from men in black before vanishing without a trace. Was it a hoax, an experiment, or something darker? Decades later, another phantom emerged—this time all too real. Between 2013 and 2016, Yahoo suffered one of the largest data breaches in history, exposing billions of accounts and shaking the very trust of the digital world. In this episode of Phantom Bytes, we trace the eerie parallels between legend and fact—between the myths we fear, and the breaches we cannot ignore.