Episode 89. MineBook (1)
A happy family walked out of a large mansion in Gahoe-dong, Seoul.
They were Seohwa Group Chairman Seo Kang-guk’s only son, Seo Myung-won, his wife Lee Mi-jin, and daughter Seo Ye-hwa.
“Hey, have a good day, Dad! let’s do it.”
“dad! Bye-“
A 4-year-old calligrapher in Lee Mi-jin’s arms swung her small hand over her head.
Seo Ye-hwa and Lee Mi-jin kissed their daughters Seo Ye-hwa and Lee Mi-jin on the cheek while smiling happily.
“I’ll go, Dad. Honey is doing well too.”
“Go with caution.”
Woo-woo-woo-woo-
From earlier, the cell phone kept vibrating in Seo Myeong-won’s arms.
“Isn’t this an urgent call?”
“For me, seeing off my family is more important.”
“You are too… I hope you have a good trip.”
Seo Seo-won continued to wave and climbed into the back seat of the car.
The same was true of his wife Lee Mi-jin and daughter Seo Ye-hwa.
It was like that until the car started and we couldn’t see each other.
Then Seo Seon-won let out a shallow sigh. The friendly look he had just a moment ago quickly disappeared.
“Whoa— I’m a bit tired from the morning.”
At the same time, I pulled out my phone, which kept ringing.
It was two, not one. One of them vibrated again.
Woo-woo-woo-woo-
A name popped up on the screen.
[010―○○○○―○○○○]
When an unknown number popped up, Seo Myeong-won’s eyebrows deepened.
I’ve been getting calls from the same number since before. I guessed who the number was calling.
It was because I watched the news about JG Capital while eating breakfast with my family in the morning.
Then the message came.
[It’s me, Eunseok. pick up the phone Otherwise, they all die.]
Upon seeing the message, Seo Myung-won’s face itself was crumpled like a piece of paper.
Soon the call came again.
t-
[Why… just call now…]
Jang Jang-seok’s voice, which was difficult to speak, continued to be heard.
In response, Seo Myeong-won deliberately waited without speaking.
[Eh, minebook… the minebook… got caught…]
At the same time, Seo Myeong-won’s eyes widened.
“Why did you catch that?”
[Mo, I don’t know… Prosecutors… came… and conducted an investigation…]
“Cut it off at once.”
Seo Myung-won called the number stored as ‘Minebook’ on his cell phone.
[Yes, CEO.]
“…Erase all programs. In particular, do not leave any records.”
[yes···? What does that mean…]
The profits earned from minebooks were terrifying.
At first, it was started to hide Seo Myung-won’s secret hobby, but now it has grown significantly.
It could not be easily understood from the point of view of the person operating such a thing.
“Erase it, right now.”
He said that and hung up the phone.
Whether the profits were big or small, it didn’t matter because Seohwa Group’s only heir, Seo Hyeon-won, was just a small sum of money.
It was just a slightly risky hobby.
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Hong Ma Apartment in Kowloon, Hong Kong.
It was a place where a huge number of windows were tightly packed on the walls of the apartment.
In such Hongma Apartment 23121, a man moved hurriedly while sweating profusely.
It was Lee Jin-pyeong, the developer of the ‘Minebook’ program on the dark web.
It was not to the point of being called great because it was close to a clone made by bringing in the existing SNS basic source.
However, the network created over a long period of time within it was enormous from Lee Jin-pyeong’s point of view.
And the largest investor who laid the foundation for the present and the actual owner of the program, Seo Myung-won, ordered to delete it.
“Cut down this gold-thin business? That sounds crazy.”
I had no intention of following what he was told from the beginning.
It was because the data and contact network accumulated in the Minebook could have escaped from Seo Myung-won’s hands and touched a larger amount of money.
Woo woo woo woo-
Lee Jin-pyeong started moving the data on the server to a high-capacity external hard drive.
I couldn’t help it because it could be too conspicuous to take the whole server.
“Be quick. Please hurry up.”
The green gauge indicating the file transfer on the PC screen gradually filled up.
Because the capacity was enormous, the speed was not as fast as the haste.
“Be quick.”
If I had known this was going to happen, I would have moved it in advance… It was so sudden.
Besides, the reason why I was nervous like now was because Seo Myung-won was not a easy-going person.
In the past, when there was something that Lee Jin-pyeong held back, he was immediately taken action by the person who sent it directly.
The man who visited at the time was a member of the Five Yuan Society, which occupied the back world of Kowloon, Hong Kong. And Lee Jin-pyeong suffered from broken ribs and right shin for several months.
If it was wrong this time, it would have been more, not less.
To that extent, Lee Jin-pyeong was stealing away with the determination to die.
“damn-“
Impatient Lee Jin-pyeong poked his head out the window and looked down.
I saw people and cars that looked like toys. There, I found a row of black cars entering the driveway toward the entrance of the building complex.
Hongma Apartment was a place called an ant nest.
It was mainly occupied by people who did not have good circumstances or who had a lot to hide.
Of course it is old and outdated. There weren’t many cases where a luxurious car would come in such a place.
“sh*t!”
Lee Jin-pyeong had a hunch that Seo Myeong-won was the one sent through Oh Won-hoe.
But the movement of the file is now ‘43%’.
The remaining 57% is far from being filled.
The amount of data collected by Minebook on the Dark Web was staggering.
Belt— Belt— Belt—
Startled by the sudden ringing, Lee Jin-pyeong stopped all actions.
It was the sound coming from the server.
“···Why all of a sudden······.”
Hacking was detected on the server.
Jinpyeong Lee sat down at his desk and changed the screen on the monitor.
Oh Won-hoe is coming from below, and even hackers have infiltrated Mine Book’s server. Like a dog, he would lose all the price of following Seo Myeong-won.
“…I don’t know what kind of bastard it is, but I’m looking for it.”
At the same time, I thought it was better.
Even if Oh Won-hoe were to come, they could pretend that there was a delay to stop the hackers.
Jinpyeong Lee was busy tapping on the keyboard.
As the screen changed rapidly, I tried to figure out which route the intruder in the server came from.
That way, after blocking the escape route and falling into a trap, you can design things the way you want…
tatatatata—
“Are you newbie? He walks around with his tail properly exposed.”
bang-
Just then, the door slammed open.
Zhang Zhiqian, who had previously left the Wu Yuanhui, entered with his subordinates.
Zhang Ji-chen approached Lee Jin-pyeong, who entered calmly and did not even turn his head.
“Didn’t I hear you clear the way?”
“I was trying to organize too! But suddenly, someone who hacks the server here appears and wants to steal your data!”
Jinpyeong Lee showed the monitor.
In the meantime, something was happening as the screen kept changing.
But Zhang Jichen didn’t know about computers, so he only snorted.
“So what are you talking about? Wouldn’t it be okay to destroy everything?”
“Are you crazy? Did you ignorantly think that destroying everything would erase the data?”
“is not it?”
“Don’t you know how sensitive this information is? You know that if it leaks even a little, he won’t be able to get over it quietly.”
Zhang Jichen’s troubles deepened at the appearance of Lee Jin-pyeon, who was angry again.
Then I came out into the hallway and took out my phone.
“Here is Kowloon.”
The person connected over the handset was Seohwa Group Seohwa Group in Seoul.
Seo Myung-won heard his voice and answered in Cantonese.
[Yes, please tell me.]
“There is a hacker trying to rob the server or a hacker, and Lee Jin-pyeong is taking action. What should I do?”
I was worried for a while, but there was no answer.
Then, not long after, Seo Myeong-won made a decision.
[Hmm… if everything seems to be organized, please take care of it.]
“Is that what you said earlier?”
[you’re right. All you have to do is clean up ‘everything’ along with all traces of it. And let’s figure out who the hacker is. You have to deal with everything. I think you’ll suffer for the cost, so I’ll double it.]
It seemed that Lee Jin-pyeong was included in the request.
Since it had been talked about in advance, Zhang Jichen was also calm.
“Thank you if you do. We will proceed.”
After the call, Zhang Zhichen went back inside.
Lee Jin-pyeong was still hitting the batter hard and blocking something.
“I almost got the tail! Shall we see what kind of guy he is?”
“Did you find out who it was? If anyone finds out about this, we’ll take care of it, so give us the address.”
“wait a minute!”
While changing screens, Lee Jin-pyeong checked the intruder’s code.
The code contained the intruder’s information.
[···SUNFISH···]
“···huh? Sunfish?”
“What is it?”
“Um… it means sunfish.”
“You mean that strange-looking fish?”
With the word sunfish, it was easy to recall what kind of fish it was.
However, Jinpyeong Lee’s expression darkened slightly.
Zhang Jichen caught it and asked.
“Is there a problem? He said he got them all.”
“…that’s not it. There is a hacker I know called Sunfish. Ah, rather than knowing exactly, I heard…”
“Good. Who is that?”
“Ah— it won’t be. If this guy is really that guy, there’s no way I can catch him.”
Belt— Belt— Belt—
As if waiting, the server beeped.
Surprised, Lee Jin-pyeong checked the screen.
The Sunfish code, which I thought I had just caught on to, suddenly began to be detected all over the server.
“what? No, why is this…”
We quickly analyzed where the location was detected.
At the same time, Jinpyeong Lee’s complexion turned pale.
Every location was the route Sunfish had just made a lap around the server.
“This is… a bug mine…? This method was obviously used frequently by Sunfish when hacking…”
It was a method of planting bug code in the movement path and activating it when the pursuer stepped on it.
However, it was difficult to create the code for the bug, and the difficulty was high because the plan to accurately lure the route had to be perfect.
While Jinpyeong Lee tracked down, he touched all the bug codes that Sunfish had scattered.
“I can’t… I can’t do this…!”
“What is it!”
“…Shut down the power! If it goes like this!”
With that answer, Jinpyeong Lee headed for the server’s power supply.
However, he could not take a few steps and was caught and blocked by Zhang Jichen.
“Where! What the hell are you doing?”
“You are being attacked in reverse! If you leave it like this, all information on the server will be passed on to him! You must disconnect immediately.”
It was not something that could be done simply by disconnecting the main body of the computer.
Due to the bug code, even the door of the server that had been locked was left wide open.
“Find out which bastard he is. Isn’t it just a matter of finding him and dealing with it?”
“I don’t know! No one knows what Sunfish is! Even the CIA and the U.S. Department of Defense were looking for him to recruit him, but rumors spread that they couldn’t find him in the end!”
Jinpyeong Lee’s atmosphere was several times more serious than before.
When Zhang Ji-chen got out of the way, Lee Jin-pyeong immediately tried to turn off the server.
Poo, pooh-
“Cheak!”
In an instant, Lee Jin-pyeong fell forward as blood splattered from his back.
A bullet flew from somewhere along with the sound of a sharp wind.
“what!”
Surprised, Zhang Ji-chen and his subordinates hid behind server devices, bookshelves, sofas, and walls that were visible around them.
Returning life of a retired S-class mercenary