User blog:Bzero/Ratchet – Data Hack

Ratchet appears on-screen, sitting at his desk in the Iacon Medical Center. His optics are dim and the chrome of his face needs to be buffed. With an exhausted sigh he reports, “Chief Medical log, cyberdate 73004.3. Last cycle we were hit by some sort of dormant virus uploaded into our system with one of the reports. Flipsides and Scales were able to save most of our research data, but our systems are compromised and this is a real setback for investigation into nucleosis.”

Ratchet shakes his head. “The perplexing thing is that Flipsides said the assailant used Autobot codes to upload the virus. Now, I know Ironhide runs a tight ship, so it must have been one of us that allowed our credentials to fall into enemy hands – presumably one of Soundwave’s infiltrators. Please, Autobots, make sure your passwords and insignia are secure. We don’t have time for additional security training in the middle of everything going on.”

With a sigh, Ratchet continues, “I’ve asked Chromedome and Lightspeed to look over our systems to make sure everything is back on the up and up. In the meantime, make sure you back up everything on an external drive. Flipsides – work with Scales to reassemble everything we have on Nucleosis. We can’t access our archive, but I’ll be damned if it stops our efforts. Ratchet, out.” Ratchet takes a long sip from an energon container on his desk and then ends the log.