Hacking - A Serious Offence

We all know about hacking and heard many stories about hackers cracking into your system and stealing your secrets. But what if the hacker is one of your trusted source – maybe your server administrator. Recently one of my friends, Carlos Andrade (@cpvr) had to bear the loss and suffering due to hacking. Last month, his server administrator broke into their email accounts, robbed them of their data, domain names, hosting account and even worst, and deleted their backups.

Carlos and his company virtualpetlist were completely broken and shattered. They lost their data, listings, rankings and valuable community members. It is very hard to see your years of hardwork go in vain. But it was only his sheer determination to win back his lost glory that pushed him to start from scratch again. He started his forum for virtual pet list lovers again. And now actively using social media, specially twitter to spread the word about the ill effects hacking had on their site and winning new followers each day.

Hacking is a serious offence and we should all stand united to fight against it.

Read more on his story.