The attack came at 3:47 a.m., when Lagos slept and the digital defenses of Elian's empire stood guarded only by automated systems and one overworked night shift IT guy named Tunde who'd been with the company for exactly eleven days.
Tunde was twenty-three, fresh from a polytechnic in Ogun State, and had never imagined that his first real job would involve defending against a coordinated cyber assault from what would later be identified as three separate hacker groups operating across two continents. When the first alarm flashed on his screen, he thought it was a false positive. When the second alarm followed three seconds later, he reached for his phone. By the time the third, fourth, and fifth alarms triggered simultaneously, he was already calling Femi, his voice cracking with panic.
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