When You Get Hacked
Module 8 — When You Get Hacked
Incident response for private people — without panic. Spotting the signs, the right order for locking things down, bank and police, data-leak check, handling it emotionally. Plus a summary of the whole course.
Learning Material
9 pagesHook — The moment something feels off
It's not your fault
A Sunday morning. You're drinking coffee, you pick up your phone — and you see a message from your best friend:
"Hey, what are those weird WhatsApps about? You need £500 through PayPal? Everything OK?"
You never sent a message like that. Your stomach drops.
You open your email — password incorrect. You try Instagram — signed out. Two minutes later your father calls: "I've transferred it. The £500. You wrote, didn't you…"
The shock is heavy. You feel stupid. Panicked. Angry at yourself.
Stop a moment. Breathe. This page is the most important sentence in the whole course:
It's not your fault.
Even IT professionals get hacked. Even banks. Even governments. Attackers have time, money, and tools — you have 30 seconds between brushing your teeth and catching the bus. What matters now is not why, but what you do in the next 60 minutes.
In this final module I'll walk you through the plan. Step by step, no tech jargon. By the end you'll know who to ring first, which account to save first — and how to sleep again.