Shadow Brokers, Bitcoin, and The NSA

What does a video game, the black market, bitcoin, and the National Security Agency have in common?
Answer: Shadow Brokers & International Intrigue
A group that calls itself the Shadow Brokers claims that it has a cache of cyber burglary tools from a little known hacking operation called the Equation Group which has been identified as a branch of the National Security Agency's preemptive hacking task force, TAO. considered sophisticated and dangerous the Equation Group has been known to use its capabilities for spying and compromising PCs without being detected. What has been reported is that the Equation Group, over a 14 year period of time, has compiled an extensive network of backdoors to the world's cyber-infrastructure.
The Shadow Brokers, taking his/her/their/its name after the video game, Mass Effect 2, made some of the tools available for free. Shadow Brokers also announced that it would auction off the rest for one million Bitcoins (1,000,000 Btc). See this source for more info regarding what Equation Group had in its inventory http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2016/08/19/cisco-nsa-vpn-hack-shadow-brokers-leak/#10e5934e48d9