The Pentest Leftovers
Client: Apex BankRetail bank · Accra
Apex Bank compliance floor, Ridge, Accra · Serious, a bit absurd
Apex Bank hired a pentest firm, which delivered its findings as encrypted files and then went out of business. Compliance needs to know what they found before the regulator asks.
Who you'll work with
Ada MensahYour lead
Engineering Lead
Dry, warm underneath, short sentences. Notices how you did. Never gushes.
Mrs. Gifty Asare
Head of Compliance, Apex Bank
Stern, exact, secretly kind.
Tunde Bakare
Senior Developer
Friendly rival. Competitive banter, always generous in the end.
The client's system
Pentest leftovers
Unknown shifts, single-byte XOR and Vigenère with unknown short keys, all with plenty of English to score.
6 tickets in the sequence · every developer gets unique keys and tests · the rules come out in the tickets
Opens in
…- Pay / ticket
- 20–45
- Band
- 400–1,999
- Scored tickets
- 6
- Your time
- 96h
0 devs on this contract
Performance bonus · top 10
+90 gems to 1st
- #1+90
- #2+60
- #3+45
- #4+18
- #5+18
- #6–10+18 each
Ship 2+ tickets for a +8 completion bonus.
The shortlist stays hidden until wrap-up. Only the first 6 tickets count.