166: Chapter 165: The Totem Became Famous 166: Chapter 165: The Totem Became Famous “Idiot!” The manager dropped the engineer and brooded grimly for a while, then loudly asked, “Do you know what their purpose is?
If it’s one of those hackers intentionally infiltrating us for extortion, we’ll admit defeat this time and quickly meet their demands.”
Others didn’t know, but this manager was acutely aware of how many secrets their internal network held.
If those were accidentally discovered, not only would the extortion amount be astronomical, but he could also face the risk of being fired and would have to keep his head down at other companies.
Upon hearing this, the engineer looked at the others but did not respond.
In the midst of anxiety, the manager couldn’t catch his breath and roared again, “What are you still standing around for?
Why haven’t you contacted them yet?”
“I’m afraid this time, they’re not just after extortion.”
The manager was taken aback.
“What do you mean?”
“Usually, hackers engage in extortion just for show, but this time, this person is explicitly targeting our confidential data.”
Hearing this, the manager’s face darkened completely, and he almost gritted his teeth and asked, “Are you telling me that they’re not just bluffing, that they hacked our internal network specifically for our data, and they have already succeeded?”
The engineer bowed his head, wiping sweat, “We can only try to minimize the losses.”
The manager closed his eyes and ignored these engineers.
He chose to report it immediately, directly informing the chairman!
He knew things had gone terribly wrong, Sunan City was going to be turned upside down, and the information in the database was enough to shut Totem down.
Meanwhile, the young man who had successfully entered the internal network remained relentless.
He first used several IDs in succession as springboards and then controlled several unknown computers abroad to continue hacking Totem.
He knew he didn’t have much time, as Totem would surely bring several formidable network engineers to protect their secrets if there were confidential data internally.
Based on the worst-case scenario and past experiences, it would take less than twenty minutes to recover the compromised servers.
In these twenty minutes, he had to sift through a mountain of data to find the necessary evidence.
Time was pressing.
Exhausted as he was, the young man couldn’t afford to rest, so he began examining the higher-ups’ computers, especially the emails from the general manager’s office from the past month, looking for illegal activities to break the case open, starting with Totem.
With the help of data analysis software, his progress was swift.
Through the company’s financial system, he first found Totem’s revenue from the past two days and then copied it directly to his computer without looking further, continuing to search for other clues.
In the time that followed, the young man rapidly scoured through all the data on Totem’s internal network, quickly finding a document about owing large sums in sailors’ wages.
Although this document couldn’t hurt Dong Linze much, it was good enough to inconvenience him.
After finishing all his tasks, the young man stretched lazily and smiled, “Should I give them one final thrill?”
Song Yun raised an eyebrow and said to the young man, “If you’re talking about turning their computers into game consoles, don’t bother.
It’s not very exciting.”
“No, no, no, Song Yun, you underestimate me.
Did I earn the title of ‘Master’ so easily?” the young man laughed and began writing another code.
“I know Totem has several large LED monitors throughout the city, originally meant to boast about how grand their company is, but next, I’ll change the imagery to make Totem even more famous.”
“You’re not going to play clips on the LCD screens, are you?” Song Yun asked, somewhat breathlessly.
“Exactly, imagine the publicity effect of a huge LCD screen, four to five meters long and two to three meters wide, showing Japanese dramas, and not just that.
I’ll also play some premium content on the computers inside Totem,” the young man said lewdly, as if he was planning something very stimulating.
Indeed, what he was doing was quite thrilling, making Song Yun also feel extremely refreshed.
However, Totem was certainly in trouble and would definitely face the charges of disrupting public order, and now it all depended on whether they could hold Dong Linze at bay.
After parting with the man known as ‘Master’ of the cyber world, Song Yun returned home with a cheerful heart and planned to review Totem’s accounts from the past two years.
If he could find even a small discrepancy—perhaps several million in tax evasion—it could be leveraged to get Dong Lin’s son into prison, and then notify the supervisory authorities to slowly investigate Dong Linze.
Meanwhile, in Totem’s server room, Dong Ling, Dong Linze’s eldest son, watched with a dour expression as Japanese action movies played on the computer.
If Song Yun had seen these action movies, he would have definitely praised ‘Master’, as they were not just simple people movies but involved cross-species romance, dazzling Dong Ling to the point of fury.
Dong Ling snarled, “What the hell do I feed you idiots for?
Tell me, what the hell is in your heads?
Is it mush?
Today, more than ten senior network engineers, along with some worthless programmers from prestigious universities, couldn’t stop a single hacker.”
“Tell me, what is a hacker?
Are hackers that impressive?
Don’t you usually boast to me that the firewall you designed together is nearly as good as the Ministry of Defense’s?
Well today, some unknown person copied all our company’s confidential files and also had the nerve to play clips on your computers.”
“Do you know how famous our Totem has become now?
Do you?
All our LCD screens throughout the city have started to broadcast it.
If it weren’t for my connections, our company would have already been shut down for rectification.
Do you know how much money our company loses for every day we don’t ship?
Do you know how much the stuff that bastard copied from my computer is worth?
It could literally be the death of me.”
Dong Ling grew angrier as he spoke, and he suddenly kicked a programmer, who staggered and fell to the ground but did not dare talk back, quickly dusting himself off and standing up.
“Now tell me, how much longer do you need to stabilize the company’s servers?” Dong Ling asked through gritted teeth.
A senior network engineer scratched his head awkwardly and said, “The attack was very fierce this time.
If the other side doesn’t retreat soon, there’s really nothing we can do.”