Hackean the Koke's store website and claim $ 500 to reactivate it

Ferrol City

The owner, Patricia Portolés, considers incomprehensible that someone from the United States had set "in a small Ferrol store"

The owner of the Koke's childrenof his business and that when they entered it they diverted it towards an advertising page.And from the surprise it passed to the disgust, when checking, through the technician who manages the website of his commerce, who have pirate it from the United States and claim 500 dollars to release it, so that he can be operational again.

Patricia told this newspaper that in no case is it willing to access that blackmail and that the first measure they adopted was to put the page under construction, "to see how and if this droplet can be fixed," he said, "he said.Yesterday he also filed the timely complaint at the National Police Corps of Ferrol-Narón.

For the owner of Koke's it is incomprehensible that someone from the United States had set "in a small Ferrol store," he points out, adding that she considers "half grain of sand on all the beaches of the world".

Patricia points out that the damages caused by this cyber attack to your business are large, since, although it does not make many sales through the Internet, the website was its showcase and it cost a lot of work, effort and money to get it.

In this regard, he points out that keeping it active implies a lot of time and also spending, because you have to take the photos, document them and change the images so that it is attractive and interesting for potential customers.

Hacking is an activity that seeks to compromise digital devices, such as computers, smartphones, tablets and even entire networks, and although it may not always have malicious ends, currently most references both hacking and hackers are characterized as characterized asillegal activity by cybercounts, motivated by obtaining economic benefit, as in this case, for protest, industrial espionage and even only for the fun of the challenge.

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