The hacker conundrum

This last fortnight has been destabilising.

A website which we have run for some years without interruption was hacked by some folks from Russia. At one level, you have to admire their nerve. They have a public website which boasts their achievements.

They entered our databases -even though we had a secure site- and put malicious data on. We had to shut down the site.

Then we had to employ a sophisticated (and expensive) anti-hacking organisation to try to rectify the problem. All well and good, but then access to the site slows down and it becomes difficult for users.

The hackers are looking for Credit Card details. None on our site. But they still wreck business operations.

You’re dammed if you have intervention and you’re dammed if you don’t. The anti-hacking group MD said to me, “get used to it. There’s worse to come.”

Isn’t that just the news you want to hear? We’ll keep trying to get it right.

Geoff Holt