Just arrived in the mail: a check reimbursing me for the funds that I used to recover my website when it was stolen a few months back (this is the money that I wire transferred to the hacker who had taken my site via Escrow.com – who, I have to say, were amazing through all this – and then had frozen before he could cash it).
The truth is, I honestly didn’t expect to ever see this money again. I figured it would be tied up in legal channels more or less forever – and having this kind of resolution…it’s not only nice (obviously), it’s cathartic. The chances of this crazy situation working out the way it did – which is to say, well – were so unbelievably slim, and the fact that we were able to resolve it is such a testament to how much time and effort all the people involved put into helping me. I don’t just owe them a “thank you”; I owe them my livelihood, and my family’s security.
It’s such a good feeling to know that sometimes things really do turn out OK not “just because”…but because people care.
(If you missed this the first time around, read the full story here.)
