ShadowChild

"There're only ten hackers in the world who can [reprogram this thing]. And I'm two of them."

- ShadowChild

ShadowChild is a hacker operating from Prague in 2028.

She assists and serves as the Rippers' handler while in the Breach.

Biography
Hacking since age six, the enigmatic ShadowChild is a world-class Ripper working to pull off the "hack of the century." By exposing The Palisade Bank Corporation's fortress-like Blade servers to hackers world-wide, ShadowChild will not only position herself as the world's foremost hacker, she will also take vengeance against the man who put a bounty on all Rippers; Palisade CTO and mastermind of the Blades, Masaaki Oshiro.

ShadowChild helped Adam Jensen and Francis Pritchard hack into the Palisade Blade, causing the Breach in the process. After fleeing the country, she would go on to enlist countless Rippers worldwide in taking advantage of the Breach by helping them infiltrate the Blades' corporate servers and extract the Terabytes of private data within. She also gives them "Darknet Files", humanitarian cases where people go to the Darknet for help in uncovering the secrets of major corporations and exposing them.