"Fortunately, we’re both still alive and well, if shaken up and thoroughly terrorized, as are our dogs. Our house, however, is a wreck, and they have taken essentially everything electronic that we had. Computers, phones, everything.
"Why? As it was explained to me, the username which I have been using on Twitter, and everywhere else on the Internet (“cerebrate”, and variants) for over 20 years has also been used by the person responsible for the Redeemer ransomware.
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"Since I have no access to most of my accounts, I would appreciate it if those of you reading this could pass this message along to other readers and to anyone else who knows me or might be interested in the situation.
"For the moment, I can be reached at the gmail address post.cyber.apocalypse@gmail.com, and a friend has set up a GoFundMe for recovery and legal costs at:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-amy-and-alistair-after-a-mistaken-fbi-raid
"Thank you all very much for your kindness.
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At the moment, we've got at least some of our accounts back and are trying to regain access to our cloud backups, and have started the long slow process of returning our home to habitability.
More news when we have it.
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