“Why waste time?” Elija shrugged. “It’s not like anyone outside the network can get in.” Weeks passed uneventfully until one late evening. The store’s manager, Maya, noticed oddities in the surveillance footage: timestamps flickering in reverse and a shadowy figure loitering near the vault, which was installed for future expansion. When she checked the Flussonic admin dashboard, the interface was locked out, and the log files showed a login from an external IP address. Panicked, she contacted the IT team.