HACKING PUTS US
AT RISK ONLINE
This week I appeared on the Catholic podcast, “Fiat Ministry Network,” speaking about my novel, MY BROTHER’S KEEPER, and mentioning how it could be purchased directly from my blog.
The next day my wife, Kathy, wanted to make sure the purchase link was functioning properly. So she went to the blog, where she discovered that overnight all the links had been altered to take anyone who clicked on them to some other website.
I had obviously been hacked.
Identifying the root URL of that mysterious page, she discovered that the underlying platform was a page written in Ukrainian.
What was this?
I’m of Ukrainian extraction. Is there someone back in the Old Country harboring a long-standing grudge against my emigrant grandfather? Do we owe money to some disgruntled relative over there? Why would anyone have taken it upon themselves to hack this blog?