Gregor sent an encrypted, high-priority communication to all members of The Collective. He found the true identity of one of the authors of Dark Glider, a frequent poster to many community forums that created cheats for The Colossal Machine.

“The real name of the poster who released the Dark Glider code is Len. He didn't have a last name, but I was able to obtain an address in Los Angeles, California.”

Alexei immediately sent a response: “Please call me on my secure line ASAP.”

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When Gregor called Alexei, he sounded far away.

“How did you find the author of Dark Glider?” Alexei demanded.

“He got sloppy. His IP address was logged on one of the Dark Web servers. He must have forgotten to use his VPN, or the connection dropped. I have seen this before with people that think that the MORP browser will completely protect them,” Gregor explained. “I was able to exploit the web server and download the entire connection log to find the IP. Getting the rest of the information was easy.”

“Good work. I will get the team on this.”