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On July 20th of this year my website was hacked and malware was installed on my backend servers. My website was promptly shutdown and the next 8 weeks spawned into more work outside of my natural strength zone than I could have ever imagined.
In the seven years that I have been blogging and working with websites I have never been hacked, until now. I ended up paying a few companies hundreds of dollars to clean up the mess and return everything to normal – though the latter never actually happened.
Over the course of the last two months I have also spent hundreds of hours restoring services, upgrading servers, writing code, troubleshooting acronyms that I don't understand, and trying desperately to learn whatever I had to in order to regain what I lost.
Though getting hacked may sound rough, it was merely the tip of the iceberg — the instigator of the real work yet to come. |