Alt Cunningham

Altiera "Alt" Cunningham is a a famous Netrunner. She also got in a relationship with Johnny Silverhand, lead singer of the band Samurai.

Overview
Alt became Johnny Silverhand's girlfriend in the early 2000's. Her history however is very scattered and not even Johnny knows fully. She is a hotshot programmer and Net wiz, she's written an incredibly deadly program that can suck your mind out and eat it. despite her spending most of her time in the Net, she's no helpless heroine, as her enemy, Toshiro, learned the hard way.

She invented the beta version of Soulkiller, a program that would make a digital emulation or copy of a netrunner's mind. Saburo Arasaka kidnapped her in 2012, extracted the information from her, and made a more deadly version that would simultaneously fry the netrunner's mind after backing it up, allowing a Sysop to interrogate it at will. They then used it on Alt since she was of no further use to them, but her digital "ghost" broke free into the Net.

Biography
"Altiera Cunningham, one of the most brilliant programmers in the Net and the meat world, tried her best to pretend she was just another pretty face when she did have a real body. Hanging out with the Rockerboy Johnny Silverhand and moonlighting as one of the most demanded security netrunners. In 2013, while she worked for the company ITS, moving info up and down the Net and handling their security, she made a lot of classy software for them. Including the SoulKiller."

- Cyberpunk 2013