How Our Websites Get Hacked Because Of Silly Loopholes

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It was a regular working day. I was shuttling between meetings with clients and meetings with my team. And one of my team members came to me suddenly and said our website is not working.

June 1st, to be precise. Our website was hacked. When I heard the words, I didn’t know it was going to be a month of embarrassment and loss. When I checked the website the previous day, it was there. And suddenly, it wasn’t.

We tried logging into our GoDaddy account but could not. It kept saying, “Password Invalid”! We tried resetting the password via the “Forgot Password?” option. We entered our details but the link to reset the password was being sent to a completely different address. It wasn’t mine!

Then began a series of phone calls. First, to GoDaddy’s Support Team in Hyderabad. And then to their team in the USA. A total of forty hours vanished while waiting for them to help with the password. But the worst was yet to unravel.

I still had no clue about the extent of the damage. At that moment, it only meant a few teasing messages from extremely close friends. That The Digital Fellow had ...
... disappeared.

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