427 Caught By Surprise (1/2)
The next morning, as people rose for another workday, they were bombarded by an alarming news that Jin Corporation, the number one company in the country had been hacked. Many were shocked because they always had the impression that Jin Corporation was invincible. It had always reigned at the top ever since Sir Lu Jianhong and the grandfather of CEO Jin Liwei successfully made it so.
However, there were those who already expected that Jin Corporation would be targeted after hearing yesterday that some of the other top companies were hacked. As the number one company in the country, Jin Corporation was actually more susceptible to cyber attacks than any other companies because it stored the most data from its hundreds of millions of clients. This alone was already a great temptation to many evildoers.
At the moment, all of the affected companies were in full damage control mode. Each of them held their own press conferences. It was an extremely busy day for the media, as they sent their journalists and reporters to attend all of these conferences.
The companies admitted that about 90-100% of their data were breached by the hacking incident yesterday. As soon as these figures were announced, their clients unsurprisingly went into uproar.
After giving a formal apology, the companies promised that they would do everything in their power to increase their system security so that something like this wouldn't happen again in the future.
Now that these companies were finished with their own press conferences, everyone was waiting for Jin Corporation's turn. Among the country's top companies, Jin Corporation had the most to lose in this hacking incident. There were many who were eagerly anticipating its downfall, so that they could finally have the chance to occupy its long-held throne of being the number one company in the country.
Alas, they were bound to be disappointed.
Instead of sending out a spokesperson like what most of the affected companies did, Jin Corporation actually sent out its own President-CEO Jin Liwei to speak directly to the media in the press conference. This sent out a powerful message that the company head wouldn't cower from facing this predicament head on.
As usual, Jin Liwei looked tall, handsome and extremely gorgeous in his immaculate custom-made tailored business suit. His expression was cold and serious. He wasted no time in providing the details about his company's state after the hacking incident.
”I regret to announce that 48% of our clients' data had been breached during last night's cyber-attack—”
Gasps resounded all over the press conference hall. Even those watching the press conference's live broadcast and livestream were shocked upon hearing what he said.
Jin Liwei continued speaking in a grave tone. ”48% is a huge number. I and everyone at Jin Corporation vehemently condemn last night's cyber-attack! We deeply apologize to our valued clients in not preventing and stopping this data breach in a timelier manner—”
”CEO Jin! Please repeat the percentage of Jin Corporation's data breach! We heard you say 48%, but is that figure really accurate? Isn't it supposed to be higher than that? The other companies reported 90-100%! Aren't you just downplaying the real number to appear better than the other companies also affected by the cyber-attack?” a reporter suddenly asked him.