Three days later, his phone rang. A man with a calm, tired voice said, “This is Dr. Vance, CISO of Mercy General. You’re the one who found our API leak.”
"Ethical hacking," he muttered. "Sounds like an oxymoron. Like jumbo shrimp."
He wasn’t supposed to find this. This wasn’t part of the masterclass.
The instructor, a bald man with a monotone voice named “Coach Mike,” started with networking basics. ARP, DNS, TCP handshakes—Arjun felt his brain short-circuit. By week two, they were spinning up Kali Linux in a virtual machine. By week three, he’d spoofed his own MAC address and felt like a god.
His coffee went cold.
He did the only thing he could think of: he wrote a detailed, anonymized report and sent it to the hospital’s IT contact using a burner email. No threats. No demands. Just the facts.
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Three days later, his phone rang. A man with a calm, tired voice said, “This is Dr. Vance, CISO of Mercy General. You’re the one who found our API leak.”
The instructor, a bald man with a monotone voice named “Coach Mike,” started with networking basics. ARP, DNS, TCP handshakes—Arjun felt his brain short-circuit. By week two, they were spinning up Kali Linux in a virtual machine. By week three, he’d spoofed his own MAC address and felt like a god. You’re the one who found our API leak
His coffee went cold.
He did the only thing he could think of: he wrote a detailed, anonymized report and sent it to the hospital’s IT contact using a burner email. No threats. No demands. Just the facts.
