We predicted last year that hackers would become more malicious in the future, not only stealing and selling data for nefarious purposes, but actually destroying data and even systems. That reality hit email provider VFEmail last week, and on February 12, founder Rick Romero tweeted “Yes, @VFEmail is effectively gone. It will likely not return. I never thought anyone would care about my labor of love so much that they would want to completely and thoroughly destroy it.” The tweet went out after he watched the intruder reformat the hard drives of his email service, which has been in existence since 2001. The intrusion wiped out two decades of data. This is a tragic story.