


Panicked, she hastily wiped all trace of her existence, including her name and was forced into seclusion. She began to investigate this "conspiracy" that is until it noticed her. Eventually, she stumbled on to what she concluded was a "global conspiracy" that united several organizations around the planet, including Overwatch. While growing up, her hacking skills continued to improve. Sooner or later, she was taken in by the Los Muertos gang for her technical prowess, helping them in rebuilding her country. Even though she was a child at the time, she started to manipulate and even blackmail people, noticing how they could be manipulated just as easily as computers could. Sombra being discovered by the "conspiracy."Īs a young girl, Olivia Colomar had learned to hack after losing everything she had during the Omnic Crisis. These efforts incited a popular revolution in Mexico against LumériCo and breached the security of Volskaya Industries, the manufacturing arm of Russia's anti-omnic defense. She joined the organization's ranks and is believed to have contributed to its massive cyberattacks against corporations with strong ties to their governments. Sombra launched an even more audacious string of hacks, and her exploits earned her no shortage of admirers, including Talon. She later reemerged as Sombra, upgraded and determined to find out the truth behind the conspiracy she had uncovered. With her security irreparably compromised, ░░░░░░ was forced to delete all traces of her identity and went into hiding. Los Muertos believed that the rebuilding of Mexico had primarily benefited the rich and the influential, leaving behind those who were most in need of assistance.įollowing her many conquests, ░░░░░░ was supremely confident in her skills, but she was caught unprepared when she stumbled into the web of a global conspiracy-one that had also noticed her. With much of her country's infrastructure destroyed, she survived by utilizing her natural gifts with hacking and computers.Īfter ░░░░░░ was taken in by Mexico's Los Muertos gang, she aided it in its self-styled revolution against the government. Long before she took up the alias "Sombra," ░░░░░░ was among the thousands of children who were left orphaned in the aftermath of the Omnic Crisis. One of the world's most notorious hackers, Sombra uses information to manipulate those in power.
