The woman in the story is quoted saying things that suggest her money went walking because the services she was using were not secure. She might earning huge money but she’s not smart enough use strong passwords and take other simple measures to protect herself.

The other nugget was how the reporter Alex Dickinson chose to describe those that managed to steal the funds. Clearly terms such as “criminals” or “online thieves” were too boring for this star reporter, so he went with “cyberpunks”. Sounds like the makings of a great B grade movie to me.

I left the page with my password that appears when the process is complete open so I could copy and paste it elsewhere later. Then, when later rolled around, and I had slept and awoken my iPad and done many other things, Safari decided that instead of simply showing me the static page that had already been downloaded, it would resubmit the previous data and redownload the page.

This caused Fantastico to reinstall WordPress for me. Not good.

Most of the work I had done on the new site was gone, the most important of which was the first post and page I had written earlier. Very dissapointing to say the least.

I imagine this problem could extend to things like shopping sites, where you might accidentally order your product twice, or blog comments, where you might post them twice.

All in all, it pays to be careful.