Two weeks ago, hackers were able to find their way into Wired writer Mat Honan's  iCloud account by simply phoning Apple tech support. From there they accessed and compromised his Google, Twitter and Amazon accounts. They remotely wiped his iPhone, iPad and Apple MacBook Air using the Find My application. The tech community watched the unfolding of these events with bated breath, and when they were over, many of its members were forced to reconsider their commitment to cloud computing.

While the destruction of his digital life, which for Honan was also his work life, was certainly inconvenient, he was mainly upset about the fact that he lost all of the family photos and videos from his child's first year of life.

Honan wrote in a Wired article on Friday that, though cloud computing was the architect behind the destruction of his digital life, it was also his means for its restoration. He was able to use a cloud password security system stored on Dropbox, also a cloud service, in order to get back into several of his accounts. From there, he worked to restore his iOS devices, and was even able to get his pictures and home videos back after a costly visit to a data recovery center.

But Honan wrote that he has also learned his lesson about security. He says his greatest error was the fact that he hadn't made physical backups of his data. Now, it's in four places. Like he said in the article, he's "once bitten."

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