Someone hacked my website and now I have to pay. Last nail in the coffin of my professional hopes.

[Sylvain-]

I am really down the hole.

I have a small website I use both to publish technical content and to pretend I'm a software developer.

This website was abused by a spammer to send 680k emails on my behalf. I now owe ≈700€ to the email provider. For me, that is a lot of money.

I am disgusted and deceived. All my life I tried to be someone and it only brought me pain and problems. I think I'm resigned now to being a no-one. Spending my day watching tv and going fishing would require less effort for a similar or better outcome.

Some people on this forum made a lot of effort to help me. Thanks to them, but I do not deserve it. I give up.

[Sylvain-]

Thanks.

I am in a complete state of panic. I'm afraid now there are even much higher costs involved. It's sunday evening and I probably wont hear from my email provider before 24h.

At this moment I'm afraid I lost everything I own.

[Blueruth in reply to Sylvain-]

why the 24th? If so report your email to get it shut down. They have to shut down an email that is being abused. At least you won’t incur more charges. You do that by emailing the provider. Sometimes I will message them on Facebook or twitter to get a faster response. No way should you wait until the 24th.

[Sylvain- in reply to Blueruth]

I immediately revoked all my credentials and send a message to the provider (Mailgun). But they are located in Texas. And I will have to waif until local business hours to have their answer concerning the fees.

I didn't sleep all night and made some calculations. Given my subscription plan, the detail of abuse and the number of mails involved I risk up to 1€ per mail. For 680000 mail sent, I am ruined and even then I could only reimburse a small fraction of the fees.

No need to describe my current state of mind.

[Sylvain- in reply to Sylvain-]

I'll go to the police this morning.

[Blueruth in reply to Sylvain-]

what was hacked? How do you know?

[Blueruth in reply to Sylvain-]

they aren’t going to ask you to pay .6 mil or anything like that. Please breathe.

[Sylvain-]

I don't know

[Hidden]

contact the Police we have a special line/department thar deals with these problems in the UK

[Sylvain- in reply to Hidden]

I don't know how it works in France.

Do you think they can take me everthing I own to pay for the spam and associated fees? I didn't do anything and I'm afraid I will lost all...

[Midori in reply to Sylvain-]

Your first port of call is the police and a Lawyer.

It's a criminal act, the police will be able to track back with a forensic officer where the emails have come from, although the VPNs have made it more difficult nowadays, it can still be done.

Don't panic, get a lawyer and the police involved; They may need to take your computer to investigate though.

Cheers, Midori

[Arymretep]

so sorry, have you contacted the police ?

[Sylvain- in reply to Arymretep]

I don't know.

It sunday evening. I don't know how I will pass the night.

[Atthepark]

hang in there

[telephonejunkie]

Contact the police, I'm certain that this is covered in European law.

[Sylvain- in reply to telephonejunkie]

Im on my way to the police.

[Dell12345]

Hi Sylvian,I'm sorry this has happened, what a pain!

it sounds strange that the email provider would charge you though. Surely it's their security that is at fault?

keep going though, this is just a bump in the road! 🙂 X