In the space of about an hour Honan went from being a digital maven to a stone age basket case. Hacking Nightmare Comes True: Mat Honan’s Story Hackers can do a lot worse than steal your data and identity. They can wipe your digital life almost entirely so you’ll never get it back. Just ask Mat Honan, a writer for Wired who suffered this attack. Friday evening, the San Francisco-based journalist had his iPhone reboot to a setup screen, its storage erased. By the time he realized what was happening his MacBook Air had locked him out as part of a remote wipe, his iPad was nuked, his Google account was deleted and his widely followed twitter handle was spewing racist and homophobic garbage. read more… The net can be a dangerous place.

In the space of about an hour Honan went from being a digital maven to a stone age basket case.

Hacking Nightmare Comes True: Mat Honan’s Story

Hackers can do a lot worse than steal your data and identity. They can wipe your digital life almost entirely so you’ll never get it back.

Just ask Mat Honan, a writer for Wired who suffered this attack. Friday evening, the San Francisco-based journalist had his iPhone reboot to a setup screen, its storage erased. By the time he realized what was happening his MacBook Air had locked him out as part of a remote wipe, his iPad was nuked, his Google account was deleted and his widely followed twitter handle was spewing racist and homophobic garbage.

read more…

The net can be a dangerous place.

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