The news that the 2.17 major cybercrime case had been solved and that the mastermind of the hacker criminal organization "Eagles of Prey," BOSS, had been arrested not only shook the hacker community and the field of cybersecurity, but also caused enormous waves across the entire internet.
No one had expected the Los Angeles police, who took ten days to half a month even to catch a petty thief, to solve the case so quickly and catch such a huge fish in the blink of an eye.
Even more unexpectedly, BOSS, who had been wanted by the FBI for nearly a decade, had actually been living in a two-story villa in bustling Newport Beach, with a police station just five hundred meters away.
According to an anonymous source, the reason the Los Angeles police had been able to identify the criminal so quickly was that they had received an anonymous tip-off email.
The informant had left no contact information, only a baffling name—Dr. Z.
That name really was baffling.
Reporters from the Los Angeles Daily News had practically knocked on the doors of every information security expert in Los Angeles, yet they had failed to uncover even the slightest clue about that name.
It was as if this person had appeared out of thin air.
Some speculated that Dr. Z might be an IT expert from Hua Nation's cyber warfare forces. After all, less than ten hours after the news of the mastermind's arrest was released, media outlets in Hua Nation reported that an accomplice with the ID "Kid" had been apprehended.
Others guessed that Dr. Z might be an exceptionally skilled red hat hacker, and this was the most widely accepted theory. After all, in the eyes of many Americans, Asians being better at Mathematics and computers had practically