MultimediaShooter.com was hacked over the weekend and appears down for the count.
What a senseless act that has hurt many people, and is a big loss to the online journalism community. For the life of me, I’ll never figure out the motivations of hackers who attack random, innocent people just to see them suffer.
Here is the message that was posted at MultimediaShooter:
RIP
I write this with a very heavy heart:
I am sorry to report that this website is down for the count. The site was recently hacked several
times this weekend and severe damage was done. I do not have the time or resources at this time to
continue. I wish you all the best. I only wish this hadn’t happened.
[To the ‘hacker’ I hope it makes you happy to destroy something that people put their
heart and soul into for years, for the sole purpose of learning and creating a small community
on the web. Just to have you destroy it for no reason. You win. There is a special place in hell for you.]
To those of you who supported the site over the years, THANK YOU! THANK YOU!
I don’t know what more to say, except, remember, it’s all about the STORY, not the TOOLS.
The first thing I did after reading this was back up my site. My server does back up my blog for me, but it’s good to have a copy stored locally. This incident is yet another reminder that we have to more careful with backing up, because it’s a messed up world out there. Not only do we have to deal with issues with upgrades going wrong and servers going down, but we also have to deal with idiots who derive joy out of seeing others suffer.
I know I don’t back up nearly enough. I need to find a good way to automate the process. I hope MultimediaShooter.com rises from the ashes.
For all our sakes.
