The Digit Jackals are a cybercrime gang of approximately 45 members specializing in identity theft, credential forgery, and the exploitation of BCI-linked financial systems. In a city where identity is increasingly digital — tied to BCI firmware, augmentation serial numbers, and neural authentication protocols — the Jackals have built a thriving criminal business around stealing, forging, and selling digital identities.

Their operation works in layers. 'Harvesters' extract identity data from targets through BCI proximity attacks (getting close enough to a target's neural interface to capture authentication signals), social engineering, or purchase from corrupt corporate employees. 'Minters' use this data to create forged digital identities — complete credential packages that pass authentication checks and allow the holder to impersonate the victim or create an entirely new synthetic person. 'Runners' then use these forged identities for financial fraud, access to restricted areas, or sale to clients who need to become someone else.

The Jackals' most valuable product is the 'full ghost' — a complete synthetic identity with BCI credentials, financial accounts, residential history, employment records, and biometric profiles, all fabricated from whole cloth. A full ghost allows someone to become a new person, with a verifiable history, in every system that matters. Refugees, fugitives, witnesses in hiding, and people fleeing abusive situations all buy ghosts. So do corporate spies, criminals establishing new cover identities, and terrorists. The Jackals don't discriminate.