You already know that I was hacked in April. For the entire day yesterday, I was sweating bullets. Were we seriously about to take another crypto hit in this family, this soon?
Honestly! It makes you pause and just before the top of your head blows off and the tears start to fall AGAIN - you have a moment to just speak "How much more can I take?"
My day started off GREAT yesterday, and then shortly after - my son texts "Can you take a look at my computer?"
"Of course. Bring it upstairs."
Brand new computer, 6 months old. solid state drive (that is supposed to be more reliable, yes??) no. The drive was trashed, no way to unlock everything in there - but THANK GOD I told my son to save his crypto keys!!!! Right? RIGHT?!?!?!!
"Yeah. I saved them. Just like you said............on the computer."
PAUSE. BREATHE. PAUSE. BREATHE. SCREAM. BREATHE. DIE.
Let me just cut to the chase. After 8 hours of what can only be described as "panic anguish desperate brain torture" (and that is putting it MILDLY) we got the keys from the computer.
I cannot tell you the relief. I think I just sat there saying OH MY GOSH for about 5 straight minutes as the anxiety finally melted away in waves of exhaustion.
Yesterday, @Snook asked us to spread kindness and joy. We only needed to do it for one day, but today I needed to shine the light on someone amazing (who is either ignoring this post completely or cringing that I'm about to gush LOL)
To the knight in shining armor that spent the ENTIRE day rescuing a damsel in distress. Lolol
Thank you Sir @Penderis.
My brain is fried like the hard drive you recovered and forced to unlock its mysteries! You're an angel 😇 You're a beautiful human being. You're a good egg. I don't care what you say. You're a pumpkin! Hehehe
You did more than make us smile yesterday. You put my family and their desperation lol - far above your love of sleep! hahahahahahahahahahaha And that is like - THE HIGHEST PEN HONOR IN THE WORLD. Thank you for never giving up!
CRYPTO PEOPLE.
You think... that you have 👉allllllllll the time in the world👈 to grab those keys and put them in another safe spot. You don't. YOU DO NOT. You have no more time. Right now is the best time to go store you keys in another safe place.
Have those keys in MULTIPLE SAFE places.
You don't have to only fear hackers. You probably should fear your own procrastination 100x more than you fear hackers!!! LOL You think I'm kidding? I guarantee - someone is reading this right now and thinking "Yeah, she's right. I'll do it TOMORROW."
Don't wait. You will REGRET waiting.
