The Need for an Upgrade - GTbank website is Hacked
Just this morning as I woke up I received a message in my inbox. I would have wished for it to be a bank alert for some I received but sadly it was more or less a heart breaking story in the form of notification. This is no other story but that of GTbank, how their site manager wanted to log in to their website host or server and mistakenly entered their login details into a look alike website which I understand better as a clone.
A lot of developers have been into website cloning lately and as a developer many young men have also given me the offer of teaching them programming with a handsome pay and when asked what they would love to do with the knowledge, they would talk about website cloning.
If not for the knowledge I've acquired as a web developer, I myself would also have fallen victim many times to the numerous cloned websites on the internet. The question is how can we solve this problem? It's as though with each new security upgrade they will be another way of hacking a system although website cloning is not something new.
Most of the crypto websites and investment platforms have also been cloned too.
Today Many people around the world are losing their hard earned money to hackers who are just sitting behind a computer screen.
Even from my observation today, Facebook may be one of the social media giants in the world but their are thousands of its clone circulating on the web.
What these hackers do with the cloned Facebook sites is to easily get Facebook users log in details which include either your registered email, phone number and your password.
This is why it is of great importance to always try and at least set up a two factor authentication each time and whenever any platform allows for such because their is always a reason behind each site or security upgrade on different platforms.
Their engineers and developers might have done their research and found out many evil lurking by the corner which awaits any unfortunate user. Now in the case of Get Bank I believe it's a different case but this clearly shows that no one is above falling victim and that there is still no safe place on earth as it is written in the holy Bible. It's really amazing to me how this word spoken by Jesus thousands of years ago still plays out even till today. It's really heartbreaking for things like this to keep happening even with all our technological advancement. At least there was a time when banks don't operate online even then it's still not safe and appear to be more risky.
According to the information I received. It was stated that the hacker has shut down the GTbank website till 2029 and to confirm this I went to my web browser and tried to access the GTbank website but it didn't open and after multiple times of trying I gave up.
To me I feel this is absolute wickedness though I know banks sometimes can frustrate their customers but this is way too far for a punishment or so. It seems as though the hacker didn't leave a medium of being contacted yet, while the bank team will be busy trying to resolve the matter as quickly as possible. I hope this doesn't make the bank lose its customers and reputation because this action is likely to strike fear into the hearts of its customers and major investors.
It's important for people to gain the knowledge of cryptocurrency and know the reason why they need to acquire digital assets. As there are changing times in good developments, so also the bad developments are fast paced trying to catch up with good developments all around the world. It's good somehow because this helps in encouraging more developments and bringing more advancement in technology worldwide. The equipment and tools we enjoy today as the latest and look upon ourselves as the best generation will one day be looked upon as old technologies and tools that will soon be facing out.
I pray they will be able to find a means of resolving this issue as soon as possible and that their customers will have the understanding to continue banking with them even if not now but later knowing fully we'll that once bitten, twice shy. By this I'm trying to say that this action will make the bank even possibly fortify and strengthen their security system both online and offline in order not to fall victim again. I won't be surprised if it's later announced in years or months to come that GTbank is now the safest bank on the planet.
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