Chapter 55 - The Man Who Owned the Numbers
The independent investigators interviewed Alden Voss. I knew because the news leaked, not because anyone was entitled to brief me on the case.
Alden issued a statement denying wrongdoing and saying all adjustments had been made in the normal course of valuation review. Those words could be true. They could also be incomplete.
Naomi's next technical finding was more precise: the model leaked outside the company had been generated from a restricted workspace using a service token whose permission was broader than policy required. The token had been requested during an audit committee workflow.
“That means somebody left a door open,” Sarah said when I told her the limited public information.
“Or deliberately opened one.”
“Maybe. We can't know from the door alone.”
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I thought about the apartment I'd left, the medical file Marco carried, the trust documents Adrian hid. Access and permission kept reappearing as different versions of the same problem.
At home I changed the passwords on my freelance accounts and added two-factor authentication. It wasn't dramatic. No empire fell. A door that belonged to me became harder for someone else to open.
