Part 14: The Global Block
By 2:00 p.m., the executive suite of Apex Development, our main competitor in the international market, was under total freeze.
The senior managing director sat motionless at his glass desk as three federal compliance officers entered his office.
I stepped onto the floor, my expression flat and entirely free of emotion as I dropped the Maine shipyard logs.
"Your internal servers have been actively downloading encrypted design packets from an unauthorized node in Maine," I stated.
The director’s face turned an ugly shade of ash as the room's grand display monitors flashed red system warnings.
The unredacted transaction summaries showed a sequence of sixty automated payments routing directly to Brenda's partner's account.
"We had no knowledge that these technical files were stolen from your infrastructure, Elias!" the director stammered.
"The portfolio was presented to our board as a legitimate technology license agreement by Torres Logistics."
"The license carried a forged digital certificate, sir," Naomi Pierce countered, presenting the grand larceny warrants.
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The compliance officers immediately began dismantling the firm's main data array, halting their entire development line by noon.
The competitive threat was completely neutralized before a single line of stolen code could be commercialized in the market.
