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Been hacked? I have.

Taking on ALL the roles as tech support for my wife’s LLC can be a harrowing experience.

4 min readFeb 26, 2025

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Being a pro coder, there is no shortage of questions that come my way when people “learn” what I do. The question I always want to know is, why are at least HALF of them all about tech support?!?

Whelp I guess it was prone to happen sooner or later.

My wife’s website which undergirds her publishing business gots HACKED.

The website was offline. I tried to get in. I couldn’t. I pinged tech support. They came back and told me the server was humming right along. I said “no it’s not.” They ran a scan. And…

Okay, I guess I’ve been LARPing as tech support long enough that the Good Lord has decided to serve me a dose of humility. Noted!

Time to get cracking, ehh?

Fun fact: I actually have five websites hosted on this server. They’re ALL offline. Alas, only one of them is the basis for my wife’s publishing business so I already know which one to focus on first.

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Greg L. Turnquist
Greg L. Turnquist

Written by Greg L. Turnquist

Sr. Staff Technical Content Engineer at CockroachDB • YouTube Content Creator at https://youtube.com/@ProCoderIO • Best-Selling Author • Coffee Lover

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