Hacker slays websites
Hundreds of websites powered by St. Catharines-based YourNameSells.com – including dozens of businesses and non-profit groups in the Niagara area – remain rendered useless after a hacker deleted key operating files from one of the company’s servers earlier this month.
“Right now it’s affected me tremendously, I have a hockey school that starts in about a week and a half,” says YNS client Jay McKnight, who owns Jay’s Pro Power, a Welland-based power-skating program.
“It hasn’t killed me, but I’m sure I’ve lost five to 10 clients,” McKnight says of his website outage.
While it averages just five or six hits a day, that’s a “major” number for a business his size, he says.