The Dark Side of Technology: My Database Was Hacked!! — What Can You Learn From This?
6 min readJun 7, 2020
I would like to share my expensive lesson — My MongoDB on DigitalOcean (cloud infrastructure) was hacked and deleted, I was blackmailed to pay bitcoin to retrieve my data. Please read this to the end because I don’t want you to experience what I had. This is how the story goes…
