The Inside Job

The terminal Kevin worked on had just received the confirmation of a huge sum of credit transfer from an anonymous client to another. He seized the chance to grab any data from the terminal in that fraction of a second, and netted a significant amount of encrypted files.

The place Kevin worked at, QinTian Credits Ltd., is a major company involved in the anonymous Global digital Credit Transfer system, short for GCT. While paper currency still hold its value at the market, digital credit had also gained its place around the globe, especially for underground payment and money laundering since credits were relatively stable in exchange rate and least regulated. Companies like QinTian that dealt with credits transfer acted as an agent that provided a channel for ease of transaction. Besides automated programs that process enormous amount of data in a network, a specialist was also hired to oversee the transactions and ensure network stability, in which case, Kevin was the one in the morning shift.

He had access to logs and security details from the system, but if it went down to the client information, the company surely would have a state-of-the-art encryption system in effect. Decryption wasn't impossible, all he need was the right tool for the right information.

Right after he captured the data on the transaction of one client masked as 'D***WADE' and bypassed the system, the credits was literally his to waste. When he was on the shift, he always kept an eye on 'D***WADE'. Once it made a transaction, his program would automatically place another order right after that and purchase items he pre-selected and ship them for sale in the black market. His contact there would cut him a six and four deal for the wholesale.

Twice had he succeed using this method to gain a fortune, more credits than his work paid in months, and the client didn't even react or suspect a thing. Only this time, he found the account temporarily went on lock when he finished his lunch. He realized he had to abandon the fish, though there was bigger prey in the ocean waiting for him.

Kevin didn't just leave the account's owner alone, the next day when he got back to work, he purposely flagged the account as being involved in suspicious activities and executed a credit froze. Not credit in, no credit out. You want to play, let's play.

What Kevin didn't realize was, there were something more important than credit and he was messing with the wrong person.