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My blog was hacked. I was devastated.

I went to write a new blog post last week (much delayed) only to find a message from a hacker. Someone had got into my blog and put a virus message in place of my posts.

I was gutted. Embarrassed. Upset.

The public embarrassment at giving people a virus. At losing people’s thoughtful comments. The upset as I realised I hadn’t backed up my posts. The sense of loss as I thought about all the link juice I was losing. The sense of loss at all the work I put in.

I vowed to my blog to look after it better. To tend it each day. To write it more rigorously.

I pressed delete and removed it all.

I’ve restored some of it thanks to Google’s cache. But the comments are now lost. If you’re a first time visitor, this blog was a good place for debate (now and again) and if you’re returning, it had a lot more comments than you remember!

I’ll do better next time. But it was a hard lesson to learn.

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