[Music] how did you decide to become a hacker well i'm not really sure what it means to become a hacker that's like some guy in a hoodie who types really fast and stays up all night writing code and cracking passwords it's not me i just spy on people and see what makes them click it's not a bad job mark hanning ceo of qualacart set to report earnings after their blockbuster ip so you consider this a job i put a lot of work into this i'm not lazy it takes research to figure out the key players
learn all about them their families their friends what they care about you have to understand the company's organization i get a lot of my information from the sales department because they're always so quick and eager they're hungry people trust too easily they don't look at the details i do details matter that's what i'm good at it has to look completely believable it has to look familiar this is where research is important it's not some generic piece of spam it's an email from their boss with their company's signature it's written in the voice of the boss
it's what he would say if he were writing this [Music] what about the malware itself how does that work somebody else out there already wrote all the code that does the actual attack i'm just using it in the attachment my skill is in my ability to get a bunch of people to click on that attachment i always wonder what it's like when the whole thing unfolds on their end when the panic sets in please leave your message after the beep hey this is rajiv and finance call me as soon as you get this something's up
with my laptop and katie are you on your way into the office something's going on with our file servers karen and hr our benefits dashboards things really slow we're getting calls from users on it can you probably get this joining conference now apparently there is a malware attack targeting our main ransomware they're holding up we're locked out of everything i can't even check my phone what about the backup that will take days we need this fixed now we don't have a choice we're reporting earnings in two hours but how do we know yourself hey put
every single person on getting us back up and running that's the only priority now okay it's done i have the decrypt key [Music] mark we have a big problem the ransomware was just to distract us they got inside they got everything customer data financials everything qualicart is reeling today from the news that hackers have released the personal information of nearly the nasdaq closed lower today led by qualacart which was down 14 on news that their recent data breach may be far worse stock fell to a new all-time low on news that ceo mark hanning is
stepping down after what is turning out to be one of the worst breaches of personal information in recent history do you feel bad about releasing the personal information all the financials all the money that was lost all i did was get the files i'm not the one that decided to release them i'm not the one that shorted the stock somebody else had their reasons for that it's above my pay grade i was paid to do a job and i did it well and that's what's expected of anyone isn't it anyway markets bounce back you
