Amateur Bankers

Tiantang Central Bank has recently been the target of several hacking attacks, which go mostly unnoticed because they steal negligible amounts of credits from thousands of separate accounts; and the bank's network is so large and unweildy that it's almost impossible for any sentient observer or any non-quantum computer systems to detect minute anomalies. After the first few scams were noticed, Tiantang Security determined that for every detected hacker, an estimated five hundred walked away scot-free.
The bank needs better technology to find out the hackers that's re doing this, and it has directly requested Wang Corporation for an exception to the AI ban, as a full AI would quickly detect and stop these micro-thefts, but the petitions has become mired in bureaucracy, and meanwhile more and more hacker groups are seeing this form of robbery as a great, relatively safe, opportunity to get rick - with a small but very real risk of getting caught, which makes it into the the perfect thrilling adventure.
…Or makes them into targets for any freelance hacker or mercenary willing to help the bankers.
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