In the Realm of the Hackers revised

In the Realm of the Hackers
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In the Realm of the Hackers
Cassandra was a group of hackers that targeted people’s personal information. Recently, there were rumors that they were to snooping through various social media networks in search of information about specific diplomats. The group was to use the data later to blackmail them. The next day, Monday morning, the Cassandra scheduled to raid diplomats their personal information so that they can manipulate them to leak information that discredited the trade relations between America and other countries in an attempt to influence the stock market. The plan was to get the information data mined from the organization’s directory based on the diplomats’ online identity. Once collected, they were then to force the diplomats to divulge trade secrets about their dealings with America. In case any of the diplomats was hesitant, incriminating evidence about them, for instance, pictures of them receiving bribes, were to be released to the public. The information about the attacked leaked 22 hours before the meeting started and hence most diplomats resorted to ensuring their online activity and profiles were anonymized so that Cassandra hackers could not access their personal information.
When the meeting had begun, Cassandra individuals began analyzing the multiple types of information belonging to each diplomat and concentrated on collecting all the sensitive data they could get their hands on. They identified the attributes associated with the data and then acquired the values of each specific attribute.

When collecting data, they chose the databases likely to store the information they needed and studied the indexing used to encrypt them. They noted that the databases they were to hack used a link to connect one piece of information to another. As a result, the hackers went ahead to predict the sequences leading to the location of each target’s data and that of their family. Moreover, the media network used in organizing the information used hierarchies hence making it easier for Cassandra to accumulate a lot of data in levels within a short time.
After studying the means of data organization, it became easy for Cassandra individuals to establish the specific identifier of their target. It did not matter whether the database administrators used sequential numbers or random numbers to generate the identifier. However, some administrators had used unique global identifiers (GUIDs) to create the unique string to make accessing the information from the servers slight sophisticated. In these cases, the hackers concentrated on decrypting the security patterns and protocols used in designing the database. They acted fast within the lifecycle of the information before anyone took it down hence rendering it irrelevant. In the end, they succeed to gather enough data to fabricate an information item on some of the prominent diplomates with information that would benefit their mission.