Chapter 101 A Sudden Windfall
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Talk about perfect ming just as some hackers were raiding the site, someone dropped exactly what they needed right into their laps
If that wasn’t a total stroke of luck, nothing was.
Using the exploit Isabella provided, the tech team glided past the site’s security walls and breached its inner sanctum without breaking a sweat.
The lead analyst practically welled up with tears of joy.
“Man, I feel completely bulletproof!
“Holy crap! I haven’t had a digital run this smooth in ages!
“Who on earth is the absolute legend behind this code?
“I seriously wanna build them a shrine!
“I’m ready to bow down and worship them!
“I gotta thank them for giving me a taste of what it’s like to be a god–tier hacker!”
While he was losing his mind, Ethan watched in silence before suddenly dropping a bomb, “Can we scrape every single byte of data off this network?”
He pointed directly at the other servers packed with classified intel.
The databases were overflowing with files targeting/Valoria.
In the past, cracking the syndicate’s mainframes was an impossible task.
Even if they managed to sneak past a firewall, they could never roam around as freely or pull raw files at will like they could with Isabella’s little script.
But the game had completely changed now.
They had a literal weapon of mass destruction in their hands.
If they didn’t unleash this weapon now, when would they ever get another shot?
At this point, even the Carter kidnapping case seemed small–time compared to this windfall.
The analyst froze for a split second at Ethan’s suggestion, before the whole room flashed enthusiastic thumbs–up, “Commander, you are a literal genius.
“No wonder you special forces guys are legendary!
“Your mind works a million miles a minute!
“Hurry, hurry! Start cloning the drives! Copy everything!
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Chapter 10A Sudden Windfall
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“Scrape every single record we can lay our hands on!”
Nobody was wasting a single second worrying about whether Isabella’s evidence was authentic.
I mean, come on.
The person who sent the files literally handed over a master key to the whole network; how can it be fake?
Their top priority right now was locking down every scrap of criminal data they could find.
This was a golden opportunity to close out countless massive cold cases.
They had prime suspects for plenty of major crimes, but they always hit a brick wall with the chain of evidence.
But right now, every single transaction run through this dark server gave them exactly what they needed to crack those open.
Even for the unrelated cases…
Well, that was still a massive, career–defining victory.
Time to plunder.
The entire team went absolutely wild, swarming the network like starving wolves on a fresh kill, ready to strip the offshore servers clean.
After all, nobody knew how long Isabella’s script would hold out.
If the offshore admins caught on and patched the security hole, they would lose access instantly.
They had to squeeze every last drop out of this opportunity while they still had the chance.
Isabella probably had zero idea that Ethan’s crew would weaponize her utility tool in this exact way.
When she sent it over, her only goal was to prove that her intel was a hundred percent real.
But the moment Ethan got his hands on the code, he realized that if they could harvest logs for the Carter case, they could do the exact same thing for everything else.
As a result, the entire division fell into the data like mice in a granary, happily hoarding files.
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