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Incident Report IR-1224: FROSTBYTE

The official investigation into how this portal leaked out of the North Pole. You do not have clearance to read this. Nobody has stopped you, though.

Investigation log

  1. November 1, 06:00 NPT

    Unusual visitors detected

    The Big Abacus reports thousands of visitors to the internal portal from outside the North Pole. Visitors appear to be families. Some are eating breakfast. None are elves.

  2. November 1, 06:12 NPT

    Source of the leak identified as "hackers"

    The Office of Compliance has concluded that the portal was hacked. Evidence: the portal is public, and it was not supposed to be. The intruder signed the server log with one word: FROSTBYTE.

  3. November 1, 09:30 NPT

    Decision from Operations

    Mrs. Claus has reviewed the situation and decided to leave the portal open "because it's nice". Compliance has been asked to keep investigating, quietly, and to stop saying "breach" in the canteen.

Investigation continuing. Entries are added as Compliance finds things out.

What leaked, and what didn't

Exposed in the leak

  • The workshop inventory and production numbers
  • Internal memos (Compliance is very embarrassed)
  • Workshop Radio
  • Sleigh loading and the flight plan

Never exposed

  • Letters to Santa. The Intake Desk keeps them in a separate, very locked cupboard that has never been connected to anything.
  • Anything about any child. The portal never had it. It only knows about toys.
  • Santa's route. The route is the same every year: he follows midnight.

For grown-ups: the "leak" is the story that frames this site. There is no real breach, and no real data. The site collects nothing from children, and the story never suggests that anyone's information was taken. The "hacker" turns out to be a friendly elf. See the Grown-Ups' Desk for more.