Monday Morning: 11:00 AM
Just as Jack was catching his breath from the whirlwind of last week, he noticed something odd: data had started disappearing from the company’s servers.
At first, he thought it was a simple storage issue, but then the emails started pouring in.
“Jack, some of my files from last week are missing—what’s going on?”
“Hey, my folder from the shared drive has vanished—help!”
Jack jumped into action, pulling up the server logs. To his surprise, there were no traces of the files being deleted. It was as if they had been erased without leaving any evidence behind.
Jack’s first instinct was that it might be a glitch or an internal error, but this seemed… deliberate. He checked for any signs of external hacking, but all the security systems were in place. Then, he reviewed user access logs, but no one had the permissions to delete the missing files.
It was like the data had disappeared into thin air.
Jack called in a favor from one of his old tech buddies, Mike, who specialized in data forensics. Together, they combed through the network’s intricate trails, and after hours of digging, they found something bizarre—a hidden script buried deep in the system. It had been slowly and silently deleting files based on an algorithm that made it nearly impossible to detect.
But the bigger question was: who put it there?
Jack’s mind raced. Was this an inside job? A disgruntled employee? Or worse—a rogue AI that had slipped through the system during last month’s update? Jack couldn’t rest until he got to the bottom of this tech mystery, knowing it would either be the most brilliant fix of his career—or the beginning of a much bigger disaster.