Edited to Add: Things appear to be back up and running with my blog. It has been a scary and stressful 24 hours but it appears I was able to get all my data and posts back.
Let’s talk about more fun things, like Baking Rules, my last post that occurred moments before the fiasco.
Or the Manna Bread Giveaway I started
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My blog was hacked about an hour ago. I have emails out to a few different people to try to get it restored, asap.
1000+ blog posts spanning a few years are all missing. Every single recipe I have ever written, gone.
Every single picture of Skylar that I do not have backed up any other way and is solely in the form of blog posts, gone.
The posts in drafts that I had pre-written, i.e. recipes, thoughts, photography, notes from my life, are also missing.
The stress that I am feeling right now is beyond overwhelming. Years of work has just gone missing.
In other matters, my credit card was also hacked today.
It has not been a good day.
Your patience is appreciated while I try to repair my blog. I am at the mercy of others to get back to me because I have absolutely no idea how to proceed on my own.
The one good thing is that I have been doing monthly blog backups and so maybe, just maybe, all is not lost. I don’t know yet…
Averie, I am so sorry to hear that you were hacked. I did try to go to your blog a few days ago and couldn’t and wondered what was up. I hope all is back to normal now. That is very scary!
Oh my god what a nightmare!! Really glad to see you have it all sorted out now but so sorry you had to go through that!! :( I would be stressed if I lost mine and thats just a few months of work let alone a few years! :/ Hope the thing with the credit card is also resolved asap! Keep smiling girl things will get better! :)
So sorry about your experience! :-( Oh wow, I can’t imagine the stress, not fun at all! Let me know if there’s anyway I can help!
And so sorry about your credit card, I recently went through that too and spent hours going through charges and filling out fraud reports, not fun. Sadly it looked like someone when on a shopping spree for school supplies with my card and that’s probably the only way their kids would get anything. :-(
What a lousy thing to have happen to you! Deep breaths and count your blessings when things get messy….
I just discovered your blog the other day after getting linked to yours from a gluten free blog that I was visiting. I have been gluten free for 2 years and there is no going back for me! I was worried today when I saw your blog not coming up when I checked it this morning while having my coffee. I thought that maybe you stopped blogging or something terrible happened.
I am glad that you are back in business! I love your posts! They are very inspiring and simple. I have visited so many other blogs that leave me feeling “less than” because I cannot be that perfect baker or wonderfully crafty….I feel that your blog leaves me saying “I could do that!” or ” I could make that!”…
Keep up the great work! I love it when you post a couple of things in one day. I dont know how you do it all!
PS. After a day like you had today, you should invent a new booze recipe to post soon. High octane drinks can always take the sting off a craptastic day :)
thanks for finding me and reading!
And no, no plans to stop blogging.
I am glad you like my recipes and approach and leave feeling inspired rather than…meh. I leave blogs too feeling like there is just.no.way. I could pull off what they’re doing even if I wanted to. I am glad my style feels approachable. That’s one of the nicest things to say…so thank you!
ahhhhhh!!! i pray you didn’t lose it all!
Oh, Averie–I’m so sorry. This is a risk that all of us run all of the time with all our blithe online transactions–the way that our culture takes all this for granted frightens me at times but I wish that you weren’t having to contend with such a sobering reminder of why.
I’m glad that you, at least, weren’t altogether ‘blithe’ about it: backups most probably mean that it’s not lost beyond recovery–I sincerely hope that that is true. You’re pretty computer-savvy, I get the impression, so if this can happen to you, the rest of us should take note.
It scares me that your credit card was hacked on the same day–not a coincidence?
I hope that you experience wonderful support from everyone whose business it is to help out in situations like this, and that meanwhile you can do everything you can do to reduce the feelings of stress. Anything chocolate calling your name in the freezer? Baileys in your coffee?
love
Ela
lots of love and hugs sent your way! I’m so so sorry – this is terrible. I hope you get all your data back and if you find the hacker, I’ll kick him/her in the nuts for you.