3. •Michael Hopkins and Cate Costa started a website named
OnlyHonest.com.
•The main objective of this website was to give the opportunity
to the citizens to talk about the Political agendas.
•People used to come on this Website and upload their views
and start debating on the Political issues.
Scenario
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4. • OnlyHonest.com was about to complete its first year
anniversary and was gaining popularity on Social Media and
advertisers.
• A hacker who was said to be affiliated with a Hacker Group
Anonymous found few vulnerabilities in the website and
defaced OnlyHonest.com website and its every single page.
Website Defaced
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5. •One of the site owner Hopkins tried to remove the
digital graffiti on their website, it actually
escalated the attack.
•At one point of time hackers redirected all the
OnlyHonest.com Traffic to other websites.
Initial Reaction from the Website owners
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6. • Hopkins and Costa were forced to take down their website which already had
a very big following from the social media and the site users for unspecified
amount of time to secure their website.
• "We've lost weeks of business and it could cost us thousands of dollars to
rebuild the site," said Hopkins. "We don't have the money but we're not giving
up yet.“
• "This Cyber Attack has the potential to completely destroy everything we've
been able to build so far," said Costa. "We hope this isn't the case."
Business Effect
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