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Chapter 1722: Kogoro is Knocked Out

Because the data on the server was locked, and the hackers downloaded an unknown amount of data, and now that the police have not caught the hackers, they are worried that the hackers will be angry and publish the information. As a result, the "NICE Video Website" that was first attacked by hackers chose to pay the ransom.

However, just after the "NICE Video Website" paid the ransom, the hackers sent a message demanding three times the ransom before they would decrypt the data.

As a result, "NICE Video Website" was no longer able to afford the ransom, and the company's attempt to negotiate with the hackers was deadlocked.

Gao Yuan learned all of this through hacking.

Gao Yuan didn't know what to say about this situation.

  At this point, the company is still taking the initiative to pay the ransom to the hackers. What is this company thinking?

When the other party is raided by the police and loses a laboratory, they choose to pay the ransom at this time. Of course, they will try their best to make up for their losses from these companies.

At this point, Gao Yuan has basically confirmed that the hacker is most likely the Black Organization as he had vaguely guessed.

After all, having an electronic laboratory to carry out hacking activities, and being able to evacuate it completely after the incident and before the police arrived, allowing the police to arrest everyone, this style is too much like an organization.

As for the equipment in that laboratory, the police could not find any information...

Gao Yuan actually had reason to doubt this point. Perhaps they were not destroyed by themselves, but were most likely cleared out by himself using the "Dark Night Baron".

Therefore, Gao Yuan actually felt that they probably no longer had the data that they had stolen and downloaded from the server that could be used to threaten various companies.

In other words, these companies may not need to worry that the confidential data in their servers may be made public by hackers, so the companies only need to restore the website servers.

And this should not be a difficult task for the company that operates the website itself——

It's impossible that you don't even back up your data, right?

Normally, website operations should have data backup. Even I would use a hard drive to back up the core data of the main computer in the basement. This kind of commercial website operation should not be without such a thing.

Therefore, if the stolen data has really been cleared by their own "Night Baron", then for these companies, they just need to find a way to rebuild the server, which should not take much time.

However, I think these companies would not think so. After all, even Gao Yuan himself can only roughly assume that the hackers no longer have the data stolen from the server based on the current clues.

And now that the police raided the hacker's base and found nothing, perhaps the company feels that the hacker is very powerful, so it is understandable that they want to spend money to avoid disaster.

  But now what happened to the "NICE Video Website" is that they clearly paid money to the hackers, but the other party still demanded a huge ransom before they could unencrypt the data. Once this practice comes out, I guess these companies will have to think twice, right?

In this way, Gao Yuan estimated that this matter would not have any results until the deadline for paying the ransom announced by the hacker.

After all, the hackers have not been caught, so for the companies, the stolen data is a foregone conclusion. Until they are sure whether the hackers will really spread the data and whether they will keep their promises, these companies probably won't take any action.

The company "NICE Video Website" is undoubtedly the biggest unlucky one in this incident. As the first company to pay the ransom but still threatened to increase the ransom, it is estimated that other companies are waiting for the follow-up actions of this company.

Find out whether the hacker's request for an increased ransom is the result of the company calling the police, and whether they will stop after the full amount of additional ransom is paid, or whether they are just being shameless and threatening to ask for money but will never unlock the company's network.

This is probably something that all parties are considering. But in Gao Yuan's opinion, this is nothing more than a waste of time.

  Could it be that they still expect hackers to reason with them?

Gao Yuan couldn't help but shook his head at this. He felt that the actions of these Japanese Internet companies were too childish.

  At least, since "NICE Video Website" has already transferred the money, can we try to track where the money goes?

You know, encrypted virtual currency has not come out yet, and can't the "NICE Video Website" deal with hackers more on the payment aspect?

Maybe we can track down where the money went!

but……

I really don’t know what to say about the actions of “NICE Video Website”…

Thinking of this, Gao Yuan felt helpless...

……

At the same time, while Gao Yuan was investigating the hacker incident all day, in the parking lot of the Beika Department Store, Maori Kogoro drove a van with Conan in the car, and parked here, seemingly waiting for something -

"Really? Why did it take so long, Xiaolan?"

Looking at the time, Maori Kogoro felt helpless——

Because Kogoro Mouri had just completed a commission and was about to return the rented car, it was time to go home after school, so Xiaolan and Conan got in the car rented by Kogoro Mouri and prepared to go home. On the way, Xiaolan suggested going to the department store to buy some things, so Kogoro Mouri drove the car here, and then Xiaolan went to the mall alone to buy things.

As for Kogoro Mouri and Conan, they did not follow because they wanted to take a rest.

In this way, after waiting for Xiaolan for a long time, even Conan fell asleep, which made Maori Kogoro a little depressed.

So, when Maori Kogoro couldn't help but stick his head out of the car and was about to light a cigarette to kill time -

Suddenly, a wooden stick was swung up from behind Kogoro Mori and hit him hard on the back of the head, knocking him unconscious.

This time, such a sudden change was really unexpected, and Conan was still asleep, so he didn't know what happened.

Just like that, after seeing that Maori Kogoro had fainted, the figure who attacked Maori Kogoro with a wooden stick appeared.

He was a slightly plump middle-aged man who looked like a full-time driver.

  After he knocked Maori Kogoro unconscious, a beautiful woman wearing a cheongsam and with her hair tied up came out from a hidden position on the side. She folded her hands in front of her and looked at Maori Kogoro who was knocked unconscious. She said angrily:

"The person who kidnapped Xiaolong is really evil! This must have been instigated by my uncle!"

(End of this chapter)