Last week Tuesday, June 11, 2024, my LinkedIn got hacked… along with numerous other accounts because my data was breached through the 3+ email accounts I have across my apps. (I am notorious in my family for getting my accounts hacked and getting charged, from Headspace subscriptions to Best buys orders, and Amazon gift cards)
I came back home from the gym bright early to see LinkedIn emails in Chinese, little old me thought these were phishing emails to get me to log in. I thought nah I’m smarter than that. Until I got my daily LinkedIn job alert emails where I have a flood of 5 different ones all coming in Chinese, so I hopped on my computer to check my account… Sure enough, everything was in Chinese, I went on my profile they took off my picture and my banner, and renamed the profile as Una Lin, a finance manager. Then I scrolled down to my posts to see that my latest post was my certification from the first coding boot camp I graduated from over 1 year ago. All of my 200+ posts about #100daysofcode and different projects I posted about were deleted.
I had done two rounds of #100daysofcode and was two days shy of finishing the second round! I messaged LinkedIn support and all they could do was send me to reset my password which I had already done when I realized I still had access to my account and the hacker never locked me out.
I posted about my frustration on LinkedIn, got a lot of support from my connections, and a fellow software engineer, Ryan Velasquez, suggested I create a blog instead!
This was divine timing because this week I’m starting buildspaces’s nights&weekends s5 cohort to turn an idea to reality.
So now I’m here creating this blog/newsletter for my third round of #100daysofcode and to write about all the things I find along the way in my coding journey with my apprenticeship, and share cool resources because I think everyone can learn to code or be apart of the tech space.
Thanks for reading my arc story!
Invaded by Ari 👽