I’ve been in the tech blogging space for some time now and throughout there’s been one blogger – based out of India – who has provided such utility, it’s utterly surprising to hear news that he has been targeted by malicious hackers.
Amit Agarwal, a tech columnist at WSJ India and founder of Labnol.org (a.k.a Digital Inspiration), a blog he launched in January 2004, has revealed on Twitter that all his websites have been hacked by hackers and deleted.
Difficult times. Hackers have deleted all my websites.
— Amit Agarwal (@labnol) July 1, 2012
We’ve reached out to Agarwal to learn more about potential motivations for the hacking, who might be behind it and any hopeful resolution.
Hacking popular websites is unfortunately common place (we learned the hard way) but to hack and completely delete is less so.
Sadly, Agarwal is no stranger to being hacked. In February 2011, a hacker managed to gain access to his Facebook profile and in turn, all his fan pages. In 2009, his Google Apps account was also hacked into, which lead to him penning a well read piece on how to protect yourself from Google account hackers.
Let’s hope Agarwal has backed up.
More to follow
sorry for anon but always the sign in with this and sign in with that so we can get your creds its getting on my nerves
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LikeWow sounds like that dude really ticked someone off man, WOw.
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LikeRaymond Josephs yea you usually dont get that kind of attention unless you ticked off at least one guy who knows what he's doing. Since most 'hacking' today revolves around either social statements or extortion/blackmail this does seem to be a bit odd ... nothing big if he's that kind of smart he will have ample backup i suppose
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LikeThat sucks but really, that's kind of what you get for working for those nutters at the WSJ.
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LikeThe site is back. Glad he do having the backup of the whole system.
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LikeHard times man! Hope he retrieves his data!
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LikeI know that pain. I fell victim to such anonymous malicious hacking where, in my case, it was done just for fun. I didn't have it properly backed up and lost a lot of work as the site served as a free listing service for writers looking to publish. I have yet to get it back up.
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LikeIts Bad news and reality is noone can make a hackproof site :( Back up and allways update security to avoid this . Hope Amit Agawal has backed up ...and we will read useful article soon
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LikeReally a sad news..
Btw this sentence seems incomplete - "a hacker managed to gain access to his Facebook profile and in turn all his fan pages."
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LikeSachin Jain i added a comma after "in turn" now, to make it more clear. That is actually the end of the sentence though :)
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LikeZee Sachin Jain Oh okay, yeah now looks good :) Thank you.
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LikeI hope he had Carbonite!
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