What Will You Do When You Get Hacked?
Here's the 7 Lessons I Learned Today...

I guess it happens to everyone sometime. I just wasn't ready for it.

Some sleaze ball operating from a European IP address (which means he could be anywhere) managed to get my account information for my primary domain in one of my three accounts.

Then he (or she...or it) sent out more than a million spam e-mails using my MaximizeCommunications.com domain. That will get a respectable server blacklisted in a heartbeat.

To my host's credit, they shut me down before most of those could be delivered. (Imagine how many bounced e-mails I would have received. Or spam complaints - even worse!)

But also, imagine my panic when I logged in this morning and saw error pages that said my account had been suspended...

Here's what happened and how it was worked out so quickly...and why.

But first, I wanted to tell you...