Lightning strike enters apartment through coaxial internet cable, blows up gamer's PC — surge causes extensive damage to motherboard, destroys router, and leaves burn marks on the wall

During a thunderstorm, a rare incident occurred where a lightning strike entered an apartment through the coaxial cable infrastructure, causing extensive damage to a gamer's PC and router. The surge traveled from the router to the PC via the Ethernet cable, damaging the motherboard around the Ethernet port. While modern Ethernet ports typically have surge protection, extremely high voltage can overwhelm these safeguards. This event underscores the vulnerability of electronic setups to lightning strikes through network connections, emphasizing the importance of proper grounding and surge protection for both power and data connections.