HACKER Shuts Down Selective Tomato Blogs

Tomato, thank you to you and to your staff for the countless hours this has taken to get our blogs back up and running. I, along with the other Tomato Bloggers are most appreciative of how this has impacted not only us but you, as well.

We will try and be as patient as possible until all the files are loaded.

Linda, we do have a wonderful community and some very GOOD people. I know I have been so impressed by the outpouring of support and I'm sure the others feel it too. Thank you so much for your support as well.

Tomato is a man of character and his staff has worked endlessly to gather the information needed for the authorities while also painstakingly uploaded the many files for each of the attacked bloggers. This has not been easy on anyone.

I hope the community supports each of the Tomato Bloggers as they come back up and lend a supportive shoulder.

Bill,I quite agree. It really is amazing that anyone would have that much hatred in their soul. You almost have to feel sorry for anyone who lives their lives like this. They must be very unhappy. Perhaps, a little time in the pokey might help them realize the consequence of their actions.

Thank you for your support and I hope that you will lend a supportive comment or two to the Bloggers that have been victimized in this brutal attack.

Cyndee, well it's another day of December 2007 articles showing and hopefully soon all the others will be up. As far as the damage...I don't think anyone could possibly understand the damage that has been done to all 22 people.

I bet you are thanking your lucky stars that the vicious hacker by passed your blog. From what I am told they were selective in who they chose and who they left alone.  Interesting!

Glad that you are going in to comment on each of the blogs that are currently up. I have been surprised at the response and compassion for our fellow bloggers.  I do hope that you will follow through and comment.

Maggie, I think you are probably correct as long as the search engines have not gone out to spider the sites. Dead links do hurt a blog. As far as social networks are concerned, it definitely at this point has hurt. And in terms of business lost, I can testify to the fact that it has indeed hurt.

Hopefully, we will be fully up soon so that we can try to do some damage control.

Virginia, don't worry about it. I think we all knew that you didn't really mean a "prank"...it was simply a poor choice on words but it was pretty clear that you can see the gravity of the situation.

We are entering day 4 and not fully operational. Unfortunately, it is taking some time to reload the more current pages. There are bloggers who have changed companies, and therefore changed their blogs to reflect that but are sitting today with old information and portions that are not working correctly.

This malicious coward who broke in and destroyed blogs has unfortunately caused a great deal of harm and will be prosecuted to the fullest degree possible.

I appreciate you coming back and clarifying how you feel.

Teresa, can't tell you how much I and the others hope so, too. Thanks for stopping by and offering your support.

Irina, hopefully their "come around" will be time in the pokey and a fat lawsuit as well as being "outed" by our profession. Thanks for your support on behalf of all the Tomato bloggers who experienced this devastation.