But it wasn't just limited to the Sanchez Group. The Fitzgerald Group was also under siege.

Not only there was something wrong with the official website, but their very intranet was compromised.

Someone had launched a terrible stack-based buffer overflow behind their backs. This malicious app affected thousands of Fitzgerald Group servers worldwide. As a result, anytime someone did something as innocuous as clicking a mouse, the server would crash, and the words

“Segmentation Fault" would be displayed, as well as the address of the memory space you were trying to access.

And if you called up the official website, you would see a few words show up.

"Sexton is a jerk!"

However, the defense system of the Fitzgerald Group had not been broken in the end.

Everyone knew it wasn't that the Fitzgerald Group's defense system was powerful enough to resist the hacker, but that the hacker quit.

Even so, the whole thing had caused the Fitzgerald Group significant losses.

These two events had caused turmoil in the financial circles of

Alorith. Many people were jittery.

In order to make Sexton give up his fight against the Theo Group and apologize, Sheffield launched his second wave. Although it was not as powerful as the first wave, it was enough to make Sexton lose sleep at night.

A few days later, with a pale and haggard face, Sexton came to visit

Peterson.

Sexton pleaded with Peterson to make his son stop, but Peterson wasn't having it. He simply said, "My son's been working hard every day. I don't think he's behind this. He's just a kid in his twenties. He'd never do anything like this."

Only Peterson himself knew whether he believed what Sexton said or not.

Maybe he believed it, and he just didn't want to stir up trouble for his son.

Sexton shook his head.

"Do you know who the top ten hackers in the world are, Mr. Sheffield? There's Kevin Mitnick. Know what he did? He hacked into NORAD. Familiar with it? It's the North American Aerospace

Defense Command. It's responsible for mobilizing for air and sea threats. He was only 15. He used cloned cellphones to hide his location from the police. And look up Julian Assange and Jonathan James. They all created no end of problems when they were around fifteen."

Peterson had gone through a Lot of ups and downs in the business world, so it was no problem for him to remain calm around others no matter how shocked he was.

“Can teens do stuff like that now?" he asked in surprise.

“Mr. Sheffield, Kevin Mitnick is about our age now," Sexton said with a sullen face.

“Well, I never knew," Peterson said calmly.

The two people in the private room were thinking about different things. After a while, Sexton said tentatively, “They all say that