As early as the morning news came out, as the current CEO of ibm, Akor immediately realized that the company was in trouble!

And it is an unprecedented event!

"Explain to me immediately, how did this news appear!?"

"Who gives you the power to invade the Nasdaq Exchange!?"

"The bastard is not the world of ibm at all. You actually did this!? That Alice-Wang relied on technology stocks to become Microsoft's second largest shareholder, and the founder of the Cisco Systems industry leader, patent holder, you actually made ground on her!?"

"Akol, call all the people involved here!"

The shareholders' meeting was held at nine o'clock. From the beginning, the directors kept criticizing Akol. Although the time was about to come, there was no need to look at the call bidding. No one would doubt that ibm's stock price would definitely fall to an unprecedented low today.

If they don’t solve the problem quickly, it is possible that the entire Blue Giant will not recover in the next ten years!

“I have not authorized the technical department, or anyone from any department to do this intrusion.”

Faced with the angry directors of the audience, headed by Ceo Arcole, a group of executives also participated in the meeting. At this time, it was the moment when Arcole explained to the board of directors.

"The company did buy twenty old Cisco routers in December last year, but that is the same as the Nasdaq exchange's bulk purchase, it is just a regular behavior of the company to optimize the local area network. Of course, I cannot deny the personal behavior of ordinary employees, and this is explained by Minister Armin, the Technology Department."

Arcole sat down and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

A member of the board looked at the end of the conference table coldly: "Then Armin, please explain it."

Armin stood up nervously.

In front of him, the then chairman was pursing his lips tightly, and no one could tell anything from his face. The quartz clock behind him was ticking. It was already past nine-thirty, but no one dared to see the current stock market fluctuations.

"I swear by my deceased grandfather, grandmother, grandfather, grandmother, that I personally did not do the above, nor did I authorize any employee to do so."

He said arduously: "After the meeting, I will immediately investigate the members of the technical department. At the same time, if this incident is really caused by the personal behavior of the technical department members, I will definitely resign."

Arcole had a gloomy face and didn't speak.

If it is really just a technical employee's personal behavior, at least the company will be less responsible, but as long as he is not careful, he should resign. After all, the public will not focus on ordinary executives of the company. It is what IBM does, so of course he will have to come forward.

So next, it's time to make a comeback.

Throughout the morning, the entire company headquarters was panicked and no one was in a normal mood. Moreover, after such a big incident, other companies that were having business dealings with ibm were too late to cancel orders and clear their relationship. Except for the sales department people who had to keep calling to comfort the other party, even if people from other departments wanted to work, they really had no jobs.

For most people, what they could do this morning was to keep talking about the Wall Street Journal's publication, and watch the stock price drop in fear.

The next moment the shareholders' meeting and senior executive accountability meeting was completed, it was time for these people to come to the company's computer room to conduct on-site inspections.

"That's these routers, Mr. Odell."

A technical department employee said in a low voice, introducing to the chairman and the shareholders with him. He had cold sweats on his forehead, just as a group of directors could have heart disease at any time.

At this moment, the Cisco router purchased in bulk has been removed and is placed on an office desk. Each white box has the Cisco logo printed on it, that is, the short-line pattern derived from the Golden Gate Bridge into the form of network radio waves. The thing that was originally very artistic is extremely dazzling to everyone now.

"Have you checked it?"

Odell held his hands behind his back, his face turned pale: "According to the Wall Street Journal, they found the relevant IP address from the Nasdaq Exchange router and found relevant evidence from the computer, which locked it on us."

“Inspection…work is underway.”

The employee had cold sweat on his forehead: "What I showed you are ten of them, and the other ten are being inspected by people from our technical department..."

Odell and the shareholders behind him all looked expressionless: "Then keep going, we'll wait here."

Before we knew it, it was already noon, but all the relevant personnel had no plans to eat. Fortunately, ibm's technology department is a core department, and what we lack the least is space. Even if all shareholders and senior executives of the company are in harmony, they are more than enough. Of course, they will not stay in the technology department all the time, and they have to be busy with too many things.

But it made all the technical staff present suffer.

It still takes a while to check the router, and the process of reviewing employees cannot slow down. All members of the technical department have a security guard to accompany them, completely isolated in each position. All directors and executives of the company sat in the conference room for several hours, and began to interrogate everyone continuously.

"You have to know what the company is facing now."

When an intern who had just been in the job for a month was standing pitifully in the open space, Chairman Odell said expressionlessly: "Because of this time, as of noon today, ibm's stock price has fallen by 18%. Do you know what 18% is?

"This...this...Mr. Odell, I really don't know anything..."

"This behavior is equivalent to making ibm offend listed companies across the country. Invade stock exchanges and maliciously modify data, creating the first priority in cybercrime in the history of computer development. This "honor" is not an ordinary honor. Your name is Tony, don't worry, if you admit that this is just your own personal behavior, even if you go to prison, we will send your family a generous compensation..."

Odell is not a fool. Of course he knew that the CEO he had chosen would not do such stupid things. And to put it bluntly, using special technology to invade relevant institutions to make profits privately. If this hadn't happened, Odell swears that no one could even come up with this idea!

The company must have been framed, surely.

The router's inspection results have come out, and relevant packet information was found in the cache.

But no one believed that it would be true.

The ones who will frame ibm must be the industry companies. Maybe it will be Microsoft and Cisco join forces to frame it. They are both insiders, programmers, and experts. Who doesn’t know what abilities do you have?

Can't guarantee that the information in these twenty routers is what Cisco's technical department deliberately left behind after invading ibm!

In other words, Cisco and Microsoft teamed up to hack the Nasdaq Exchange and then blamed ibm!

Odell can come up with such a process. Not to mention it is far away, Cisco Systems is the pioneer of the Internet hardware industry and a well-deserved leader. Lucent Technology, which ranks second, is not even worse than it. Microsoft is not a fuel-efficient one. With a big brother like Cisco, and Microsoft's programmer who has been focusing on the software field for ten years, isn't it like playing?

That's definitely that!

but……

“We have no evidence.”

At the conference table in the afternoon, Odell sighed deeply as Ceo Arcole waved the tabloid violently and said he wanted to issue a denial statement.

"It works logically, but this is not a detective novel. Moreover, even if it is a detective novel, it will be necessary to tell the evidence in the end. Unless we can produce evidence of the invasion of Cisco and Microsoft, the other party's lawyer can kill us by just talking."

"People from the technical department will definitely solve this problem!"

As the direct person in charge, Armin expressed his determination to the board of directors: "After all, Cisco is only a company that has been established for two years, and their background is absolutely impossible to compare with us. In a week, at most one week, we can definitely find clues of their invasion!"

"I hope."

Odell sighed because just five minutes ago, the secretary had just walked through the entire meeting and informed him of a serious problem.

"I just learned that the company's stock price has fallen by 20%. Although it is approaching the closing, as long as we don't solve this problem for a day, ibm will not be able to get out of the trough in one day. I'm already waiting for the joint subpoena of Nasdaq and Microsoft. Arcoll, please invite the best lawyers we can call and must kill them!"

Arcole accepted the order with a heavy heart.

At the same time, the closing time has really come.

A mere 20% drop is actually more than many financial analysts expected. After all, the scandal exposed by ibm this time is really amazing. As an old computer company, he privately invaded the stock exchange and maliciously affected the listing of new stocks. This kind of thing is enough to easily destroy any ordinary company!

"The centipede worm can kill without being stiff, and it can make its stock price plummet by 20% in one day."

Returning to Los Angeles, after returning from Washington State, Alice immediately bought enough newspapers and then read them one by one in the living room.

"Ten billions of dollars have evaporated, the stock market..."

James is also reading various financial newspapers. The news this day is so important that media people don’t have to worry about the topic for many days: “Talk about it, Alice, what do you think of Apple? Its current stock price is still in a half-dead state. Should I sell it again?”

"Apple? Oh... don't need to move for the time being."

Alice looked at the calendar with a pleasing look: "Anyway, we didn't buy much at that time, and we couldn't lose much. Its decline will continue. We have to buy it when it is about to rebound."

"Are you really sure Apple's stock price will rise?"

James frowned and said, "Jobs was kicked out of the company. Without him, Apple has no competitiveness at all."

"So, those idiots must have invited him back."

Alice said without caring at all: "Compared with this, Dad, I will apply for graduation after I return to school tomorrow. Let's prepare the materials for me first."

After thinking about how many more troubles his daughter will deal with next, James burst into laughter.

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Chapter completed!