The Super Rich: Start from when the family business is about to go bankrupt!

Chapter 744 WPG Hacked! Targeted Attempt? A Crazy Dream!

Something terrible is about to happen?

Curious, An Wuyang immediately asked, "What terrible thing has happened?"

Ye Tianling responded, "The group's internal network was hacked!"

"The intensity of the attack is still increasing, and we're afraid our group's internal servers won't be able to hold up for long," Ye Tianling added.

An Wuyang raised an eyebrow. Was someone trying to hack into Wujingtian's internal network?

Although there are some things on the internal network at dawn, they are actually just internal information of little value.

After all, the dawn is merely a transporter of nature's botanicals; it does not possess the mirror biotechnology that has been rumored, nor does it have any exclusive agricultural gene editing technology.

Wugengtian's success today is entirely due to Brother Tongzi's behind-the-scenes support.

"So what do you mean?" An Wuyang asked.

Ye Tianling responded, "We now have two choices."

"First, we will physically disconnect the group's internal network from the internet to ensure the security of our internal network," Ye Tianling explained the corresponding option.

"Secondly, we temporarily lease computing resources to assist us in our defense," Ye Tianling added.

An Wuyang asked, "If we choose to disconnect, will we suffer any losses?"

After a moment's thought, Ye Tianling responded, "There will be almost no economic loss, but during the period when we disconnect from the physical network, external networks will not be able to access our online store or our official website, which may have some negative public opinion impact."

The Wugengtian online store and official website are both hosted on the group's own internal servers, so they will be affected.

"These problems can also be solved. We can host our online store and official website on a cloud server and purchase network security services," Ye Tianling added.

When renting a cloud server, cloud service providers typically only offer server rental services and standard network protection services.

However, if a high-intensity hybrid attack occurs, the cloud service provider will not provide free defense services. Unless additional fees are paid, the service will be suspended in accordance with the corresponding Terms of Service.

Ye Tianling also explained the situation to An Wuyang, and then waited for An Wuyang's decision.

"Is there any way to find out where the guys who attacked us came from?" An Wuyang asked.

Ye Tianling answered affirmatively, "Of course there is a way, but it's not possible right now because we don't have enough computing power resources."

"Mr. An, you can understand it as the computer's performance not meeting the standards, making it unable to perform any more tasks," Ye Tianling thoughtfully provided a vivid analogy for An Wuyang.

"What losses might we suffer if our internal network is breached?" An Wuyang asked again.

"The biggest loss should be the relevant user information. Our internal network stores a large amount of user information, including user information collected through Shuxinwan's real-name authentication, as well as patient condition information received through Shuxinwan's condition authentication," Ye Tianling explained.

An Wuyang was startled!
He had only considered that there was no scientific research data or confidential scientific research information on the internal network at dawn, but he hadn't thought about the issue of user privacy.

We did indeed collect a lot of user information before dawn!

Currently, the Wugengtian online mall has over 300 million registered users, all of whom have undergone real-name authentication and mobile phone number verification. If this user data is leaked...
There's definitely going to be trouble at dawn!
More importantly, Wugengtian also collected a lot of users' medical data through the sale of Shuxinwan. If this data is exposed, Wugengtian may face very bad public criticism.

"Disconnect the internal network immediately!" An Wuyang ordered.

“Received!” Ye Tianling replied.

"Mr. An, do we need to rent cloud services to build a mirror site for our official website to explain that we were attacked by hackers at dawn and temporarily shut down our online store service?" Ye Tianling added.

An Wuyang replied affirmatively, "You handle this matter. I will also explain the situation on Douyin using the group's official account."

"After we cut off the physical connection, can you still trace the source of the intruder?" An Wuyang asked.

Ye Tianling replied in the negative, "That's difficult!"

"In the internet, intrusion and being intruded can actually be simply viewed as a problem of connecting two points," Ye Tianling explained with an example to help An Wuyang understand.

“Based on the previous situation, our group was the ‘endpoint’ that was compromised. As for where the ‘starting point’ of the intruder was, if we hadn’t severed the connection, it would have been possible to trace them down from the vast ocean of the internet,” Ye Tianling explained.

“But now that we’ve severed the physical connection to the internet, it means the ‘terminal’ has vanished without a trace. When the ‘initial’ cannot connect to the ‘terminal,’ the corresponding data link is naturally interrupted, making it very difficult for us to find the other party,” Ye Tianling added.

As for concepts like relay servers and botnet servers, Ye Tianling didn't tell An Wuyang. Anyway, An Wuyang wouldn't understand even if he did, and it would be more troublesome for him to explain. In fact, An Wuyang wasn't interested in learning about them.

An Wuyang frowned slightly. It seemed they had been hacked, but they didn't know who the hacker was.
"Brother Tongzi, can we use the [Though Far Away, We Will Pursue Them] item card?" An Wuyang asked Brother Tongzi.

"Yes." The Happy Life System gave an affirmative reply.

The answer is actually yes?

"Does the host wish to use the 'Though Far Away, We Will Pursue' item card?" Brother Tongzi thoughtfully inquired to confirm the information.

"No!" An Wuyang refused without hesitation.

An Wuyang decided against using it, since he only had one "Though Far Away, We Will Catch Them" item card in stock, and he couldn't bear to waste it.

“I’ve been thinking about something. We’ve temporarily disconnected from the internet, which gives us temporary security, but we’ll definitely have to reconnect to the internet later, right?” An Wuyang asked.

Ye Tianling answered affirmatively, "If we want to continue operating the online store and the official website, then we definitely need to connect to the Internet."

"How can we ensure that we won't be invaded again?" An Wuyang asked.

Ye Tianling sighed, "I can't guarantee that."

"Even if we convert local services to cloud services and rely on the protection of cloud service providers, it is still difficult to avoid this problem," Ye Tianling added.

"But President An, there's no need to worry. Hackers are all driven by profit. As long as we deal with intrusion attacks promptly, such as by directly disconnecting the physical connection to the Internet, the hackers won't be able to benefit from it," Ye Tianling continued.

"Once the hackers can no longer gain anything, they will stop targeting us," Ye Tianling concluded.

After all, Ye Tianling's team was once a world-class hacker team, so how could he not understand hacking?
An Wuyang certainly knew about Ye Tianling's past, but An Wuyang did not agree with Ye Tianling's statement.

"Do you think it's possible that this intrusion was specifically targeted at us, and that the hackers have already received the benefits beforehand?" An Wuyang proposed a new conjecture.

Ye Tianling was stunned for a moment.

An Wuyang continued, "I'm wondering if this hacking incident was orchestrated by someone who recruited a hacker team specifically to target us?"

Ye Tianling hesitated.

An Wuyang smiled. "It's simple to verify this. You deal with that mirror site, I'll announce the hack on Douyin, and then we'll reconnect to the internet and see what happens." Ye Tianling understood what An Wuyang meant. If they were still quickly attacked by hackers after reconnecting to the internet, then it was very likely that someone was specifically watching them.

Additionally, if you simply disconnect when attacked and then randomly reconnect to the internet, repeating this process several times, and you are still attacked, then it is sufficient proof that a hacker group is indeed watching you from dawn till dusk.

"Go and handle it!" An Wuyang ordered.

"Understood," Ye Tianling replied.

When she saw An Wuyang hang up the phone, Zhuang Xiaomeng came over and asked, "President An, are you busy with work?"

An Wuyang denied it, saying, "Although I did encounter some issues at work, I basically didn't need to handle them myself."

"Wait a moment, let me first issue an announcement on Douyin on behalf of Wugengtian," An Wuyang added.

"Okay." Zhuang Xiaomeng obediently agreed, and she also took out her phone to check what announcement An Wuyang was going to release.

An Wuyang logged into Douyin using the official Wugengtian account and then posted a simple message with a "404 Not Found" image.

……

Wugengtian Pharmaceutical Group V:

Dear users, we regret to inform you that Wugengtian has been hacked and is temporarily suspending network services for the [Wugengtian Online Store] and [Wugengtian Official Website].

We apologize for the inconvenience and will announce the service restoration time separately.

……

Zhuang Xiaomeng saw the message posted by An Wuyang and was slightly surprised. How could they have been hacked at dawn?
An Wuyang quickly released the announcement at dawn and then said, "It's all done! Let's go, I'll take you to visit the medicinal herb base."

Actually, there's not much to see at the Tianjingyan medicinal herb planting base in winter, but An Wuyang taking Zhuang Xiaomeng to visit the base was a matter of attitude.

Don't girls just like to have an attitude?
After touring for more than ten minutes, Zhuang Xiaomeng took the initiative to suggest, "President An, I would like to see the raw material plantation for the Snow White Essence Cream, is that alright?"

“Of course!” An Wuyang agreed confidently.

The bitter orange orchard at Tianjingyan can be visited, and if the relationship is right, An Wuyang can even give away some bitter orange tree branches from the orchard.

Because An Wuyang wasn't worried at all that the bitter orange tree branches she sent out would be used for grafting and seedling cultivation, which would then lead to other companies developing the Snow White Essence Cream.

This is because Brother Tongzi provided the guarantee!

In the field of herbal medicine, there is a concept of place of origin, and similar medicinal materials from different places can be vastly different.

As the saying goes: an orange grown south of the Huai River is an orange, but grown north of the Huai River it becomes a trifoliate orange.

If the effects of bitter orange blossom essential oil, which are similar to those found in the Tianjingyan medicinal herb planting base, cannot be replicated elsewhere, then the reason must be the place of origin!

Isn't this kind of thing quite common in the field of herbal medicine?

When An Wuyang arrived at the bitter orange orchard in his UTV all-terrain vehicle, the workers were still at work, and the structure of the super-giant glass greenhouse was already taking shape.

Looking at the bustling construction site, Zhuang Xiaomeng asked with slight surprise, "President An, where is this...?"

"This is a rich kid realizing his crazy dream!" An Wuyang complained.

Zhuang Xiaomeng immediately looked at An Wuyang.

???

An Wuyang looked at Zhuang Xiaomeng speechlessly, "Why are you looking at me like that?"

"So, Mr. An, what crazy dream do you want to achieve?" Zhuang Xiaomeng asked curiously.

An Wuyang complained, "I'm talking about my dad! He's the real second-generation rich kid, I'm already a third-generation rich kid!"

Zhuang Xiaomeng was momentarily at a loss for words to refute.

good good!
What a rich third-generation heir!

An Wuyang continued, “My dad is going to build a super giant glass greenhouse, covering an area of ​​2,000 acres, with an interior ceiling height of six meters.”

Zhuang Xiaomeng has a deep feeling about these data!

When Zhuang Xiaomeng was renovating the rooftop garden of the Guyanxin Homestay, she learned about some construction costs.

The renovation of the roof of Guyanxinju alone cost nearly 400,000 yuan. The money required for the super-giant glass building that covers an area of ​​2,000 acres and has an interior height of 6 meters must be astronomical.
"It really is a crazy dream. I guess the price to realize this dream will be in the hundreds of millions, right?" Zhuang Xiaomeng asked.

An Wuyang nodded.

“The initial budget was just a little short of reaching one billion,” An Wuyang replied.

The initial budget was 9.8 million, of which 6.8 million was for construction costs and the remaining 3 million was for temperature control systems, lighting systems, humidity control systems, and so on.

However, the original general contractor was kicked out by Wugengtian because he was too perfunctory in his work and exploited the lower-level workers too much.

Now, Wu Gengtian has established its own "Infrastructure Department" to handle the corresponding issues, resulting in a rapid decrease in the total budget. The original construction cost budget of 6.8 million has been reduced to 4.6-4.8 million.

The subsequent cost budget for related systems was reduced from 3 million to 2 million.

This shows just how high the budget used to be!
Zhuang Xiaomeng was startled by An Wuyang's answer. Almost a billion?
That's truly a crazy dream!

When Zhuang Xiaomeng visited the bitter orange orchard, she keenly noticed that the bitter orange trees had already formed flower buds and seemed to be about to bloom again.
So Zhuang Xiaomeng immediately asked, "These bitter orange trees look like they're about to bloom?"

An Wuyang did not deny it. "That's right, they are indeed about to bloom. The peak blooming period is from March to April. We will also harvest these bitter orange blossoms at the corresponding time in the early morning."

Zhuang Xiaomeng then asked curiously, "How do you harvest these bitter orange blossoms?"

“Of course, it’s harvested manually!” An Wuyang replied.

“These bitter orange trees are precious, and the bitter orange blossoms are even more precious. When they are in full bloom, we will arrange for dedicated harvesters to harvest them manually,” An Wuyang added.

Currently, manual harvesting is the most suitable method.

After all, manual harvesting has a higher identification rate and higher harvesting accuracy, and it will not damage the bitter orange trees, so it is indeed the best method relatively speaking.

Although it requires a lot of human resources, the Tianjingyan medicinal herb planting base has no shortage of human resources!
(End of this chapter)