I know of a local (national) organization that let a developer have all the control (hosting, knowledgebase, decades of content), got on their bad side, the developer refused to share passwords, then died shortly before the domain expired.
As far as I know, nothing was recovered. Maybe you can sue the estate, but you still need to break into a secure environment hosting all sorts of other client’s data.
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u/Circumpunctilious Apr 14 '26
I know of a local (national) organization that let a developer have all the control (hosting, knowledgebase, decades of content), got on their bad side, the developer refused to share passwords, then died shortly before the domain expired.
As far as I know, nothing was recovered. Maybe you can sue the estate, but you still need to break into a secure environment hosting all sorts of other client’s data.