The volume of hacking attacks has been so deep and sound that when it is carried out the affected party is encountered with a huge amount of irreparable losses. The hackers with the aim of fulfilling their malicious monetary designs renders affected party handicapped and crippled so much that some times it gets really very difficult retrieve the losses.
The same is the case here that I am going to talk about, recently hundreds of websites power-driven by St. Catharines-based YourNameSells.com, comprising dozens of businesses and non-profit groups in the Niagara area, were rendered useless when a hacker rubbed out key operating files from one of the company’s servers prior this month. Comparing to one time attack, this is touted to be the biggest attack executed by any hacker so far. The affected party is reported to have been saying that the hacking attack has almost killed them with the irreparable losses born out by them.
YNS client Jay McKnight, who owns Jay’s Pro Power, a Welland-based power-skating program, was quoted as saying,
Right now it’s affected me tremendously, and I have a hockey school that starts in about a week and a half. 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 maintains that by the grace of god, his small business is also sponsored by flyers and tittle-tattle from those in the Welland Minor Hockey circle. Jayspowerpro.ca generally makes available comprehensive info regarding his programs and camp. It’s a website that YourNameSells hosts for a $25 monthly fee, but which can be self-edited by McKnight.
