The richest man starts with a blind box

Chapter 1398

Charles Bieber felt that he had gone crazy, although he led the company's entire technical team to almost live in the computer room for the next 48 hours.

He also tried almost all the technical means at his disposal, and then found helplessly that he had no way to solve this damn hacker's blackmail.

This hacker's method is actually not very clever. It is simply to pack and encrypt all the data. It may be such a simple method, but it is also an insurmountable method. Unless Charles Bieber can find the key, otherwise these data can only be sealed forever. It is stored in your own hard drive and cannot be opened for a lifetime.

On the other hand, the entire company has been completely blown up, and the consequences of the encryption of these data are extremely tragic.

First of all, all the data in the company's background was lost. Many employees woke up and were surprised to find that they could no longer find any data information on the company's background program.

The work information of the employees, the attendance data of the drivers, the work schedule of the tour guides, etc., all of these have disappeared in the company's background, and they can't be found anywhere.

Even the simplest clock-in function cannot be realized. No matter how employees swipe their fingerprints in front of the automatic clock-in machine, the automatic clock-in machine will show that the clock-in failed, because the clock-in data cannot be uploaded to the company's management data.

If it’s just the company’s own data information, it’s fine. It also includes a lot of user information, such as the user’s name, identity, passport information, and their destination, itinerary planning, and reception staff who are about to come to China. The tour guide, and the most important payment information, etc., are all gone.

This is the reason why the entire English travel agency is on the verge of collapse. There have been a large number of tourists stranded at the airport, and then they found that they could not wait for the tour guide to pick them up, or waited for the tour guide, but the tour guide said that he did not know whether he was here to pick them up. , or the tour guide could not confirm the tourists' information and itinerary, and some tour guides could not even find the car. All the work of the English travel agency collapsed at this moment.

Instead, there were a large number of user complaints, that is to say, English Travel Agency received more than 3000 complaints in just one day, setting a record for the entire industry.In this regard, the English Travel Agency couldn't even smile wryly.

In the end, Charles Bieber reluctantly suggested to the boss that he could only pay the ransom to the hacker. He was personally unable to solve this problem. At the same time, he also offered to resign to take responsibility this time.

In the end, the boss of the English Travel Agency nodded in agreement, but he did not agree to Charles Bieber's request for resignation, saying that after such data is restored, he can restore the normal operation of the company as soon as possible.

"Boss!" Hearing the news, Charles Bieber looked at the boss gratefully with unbelievably excited eyes. He didn't expect that the boss, who is actually quite stingy on weekdays, would be willing to treat him so kindly at this time.

"This is not your fault alone!" The boss took out his terminal and handed a piece of news to Charles Bieber and said, "Look, it's not just our company, but the whole country, and even the whole country." The world is in chaos!"

At first Charles Bieber thought that his boss used exaggerated rhetorical techniques, but after watching the news on the terminal, he realized that there was no exaggeration at all, and the reality was even more tragic. The whole world had actually entered In a state of doomsday.

Because the unlucky people in this world are not only Charles Bieber and the English travel agency he belongs to, but almost at the same time, countless companies around the world suffered what kind of fate.

For example, Air Hamburg in Germany, all their user data is locked, and then the blackmailer asks for a ransom of 100 million US dollars, but Air Hamburg is unwilling to pay. As a result, all passengers of Air Hamburg cannot take off because Air Hamburg does not have It is known whether these passengers have paid for the plane tickets.

Also unlucky is the Times Daily, which is in the same country as itself. This media with a history of hundreds of years has rarely suspended its publication, and it still lasts for three days.

Although the distribution of newspapers resumed on the fourth day, users were surprised to find that the newspapers provided by The Times actually exuded the fragrance of ink, which excited many elderly people.

Because they haven't smelled such a fragrance for four or fifty years. I still remember that it was the 50s and 80s, when all newspapers and media were still using traditional ink printers that didn't need computer control.

That's right, the reason why The Times was suspended was because their computer system was also hijacked, and all the articles that had been written in advance were locked up.

Therefore, many articles are written and updated on the same day, but the Times adopts an all-computer typesetting model. Without computers, they can't even control the company's electronic printers.

It wasn't until some of their old employees found a way to find an old-fashioned ink printer from the warehouse, and then asked several old employees who had retired for more than ten years to beat and beat the ink printer to work again, that it was finally let The Times was able to resume its serialization.

However, The Times did not lose a lot of market because of this. On the contrary, according to statistics, the market share of The Times increased by 4 percentage points after this incident.

The reason why such a miraculous situation occurs is that the competitors of the Times Daily are actually the same as the Times Daily. They are also unable to print newspapers normally because of the locked relationship of various data.

In the end, the Times was one step ahead. It wanted to find the old-fashioned ink printer first, and became the first newspaper among all newspapers to resume publication. Then it reported the news of this computer data hijacking incident covering the world at length, Naturally, it won the love and recognition of a large number of users, and finally earned back 1 percentage points of the market.

Not only in Europe, but also in the United States, all of them are unlucky. For example, the dignified General Motors was also kidnapped for data in the first place.

Therefore, GM claims to have the most complete corporate network defense system in the world, but this corporate network defense system is powerless against hackers.

The hacker directly hacked into the core of GM, and then locked all the data of all the cars being produced by GM, and then directly extorted 100 million BT coins.

With the pride of GM, it is of course impossible to agree to such a request, not to mention that the executives of GM have never even heard of Bitcoin, so GM completely ignores such blackmail demands. Instead, he hired the technical team of the strongest network security department in the United States to help him unlock the data.

As a result, the strongest technical team just came around and said very simply that even they couldn't unlock this thing.Because this is not a problem that technology can solve, unless GM is willing to use the world's most powerful 100 supercomputers.

Then let these 100 supercomputers work for GM at the same time for a year, then it may be possible to find the key by credentialing, thereby unlocking the encrypted data, otherwise there is no way.

GM has been tossing for a full month without finding any solution, and during this month, GM couldn't produce any cars at all, so they finally had to humiliate and decide to honestly raise 100 million They only found out when they paid the ransom for BT coins.

A month ago, the price of BT currency was less than 2 US dollars. At this time, the price has risen wildly to the level of 130 US dollars, and the price of 100 million coins is 1.3 million US dollars.

Because 30% of the blackmails require the other party to pay in BT coins, almost all companies, after repeated attempts and found that they really cannot rescue the data, can only buy BT coins on the Internet to pay the ransom, which eventually leads to The price of BT currency has risen crazily, and it has risen 65 times in one month.

Why do these blackmailers choose to ask for BT coins?

Are they stupid?Don't want the dollars spent in vain, go for the virtual BT coins.

The reason is very simple, because the US dollar must be circulated through the banking system, and once it is circulated through the banking system, the flow of funds must be found, and finally the blackmailer hidden behind it will be caught.

But if it is BT coins, all the transfers are carried out on the network, and BT coins themselves are stored in encrypted wallet addresses, and no organization can find these addresses, which means that BT coins are an absolute Safe, credit currency that can be used at will on the Internet, which naturally becomes the favorite prop of blackmailers.

It can increase the price of BT currency by 65 times, which shows how many companies in the world have been blackmailed in this way.

In fact, half of the whole world was paralyzed because of this. In the craziest few days, almost 25% of all large enterprises in the world had their corporate data locked in their computers. The remaining 75% is not to say that the blackmailers let them go, but that these companies unplug the network cable immediately after learning the horrible news, and keep their own data away from the network. The method of physical isolation has successfully kept the security of their own data.

But the direct result is that many public service network functions around the world have all disappeared. Not only tourists cannot travel, passengers cannot board planes, many hospitals cannot receive patients, and many people's terminal communication functions are also unable. Worked, because the user data of the communication company was also hacked.

Under such circumstances, the world has naturally fallen into chaos, and countless people have suffered a lot of economic losses due to sudden data loss and service suspension.

Some people couldn't bear the blow and jumped down directly, while others vented their anger on the streets. The spread of flames could be seen on the streets of almost all countries and cities.

In the end, according to statistics, nearly 2000 people died directly or indirectly in this data extortion tragedy, and the world media also called this day the Internet Day of Doom.

(End of this chapter)