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Montreal-based web hosting provider Web Hosting Canada has revealed the cause of this weekend’s major outage.

In a blog post, founder and chief executive officer Emil Falcon said that the issue was caused by unauthorized activity by a third-party service provider.

“Based on our investigation to date, the morning of August 28 at approximately 6 a.m., an individual with a third-party service provider used their privileged account access to connect to one of our datacenter’s management portals and without authorization, initiated server reimaging on some of our backup servers, then on some of our production servers,” he blogged. “Within only hours our incident response team had identified the issue and disabled access to the source account, preventing any further damage. The…

Montreal-based service provider Web Hosting Canada has still not explained the cause of a major incident Saturday that took customers on eleven of its servers offline, with the loss of data on five of the machines. Only two of the servers have so far returned to service.

As of Monday morning the company was not still answering its phone. Instead it directed callers to use its online chat service or create a customer support ticket.

It’s unknown whether the incident was a technical problem or a cyber attack.

On its website the company said five of nine servers had both their local storage and their external backup storage “heavily damaged.”

In a posting Sunday night at 11 p.m., it said its initial data recovery efforts on these five servers were unsuccessful. Attempts to recover…

AMSTERDAM–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Leaseweb Global, a leading hosting and cloud services company, today announced the acquisition of iWeb, one of Canada’s foremost providers of cloud hosting, server hosting & hosted solutions. The acquisition enables Leaseweb to build a significant market presence in Canada, which now becomes its third biggest international region by revenue, behind The Netherlands and U.S.

Founded in 1996, iWeb, previously part of INAP, offers high-performance dedicated servers and cloud hosting from its three Montréal-based data centers. By integrating iWeb with Leaseweb’s global network, current and future customers will have the ability to seamlessly expand into the region, while benefiting from globally available cloud infrastructure. The move will also…

Global technology leader continues its expansion and growth in Canada with plans to hire 2,000 employees in next three years

NOIDA, India & MISSISSAUGA, Ontario–(BUSINESS WIRE)–HCL Technologies Ltd (HCL), a leading global technology company, today announced the opening of its Innovation center focused on digital acceleration in Mississauga, Ontario. From this newest Global Delivery center (GDC), HCL will deliver advanced technology solutions to its global client base to help accelerate their digital transformation journeys. HCL will provide next-gen services including digital and analytics solutions, cloud consulting and migration, cybersecurity, IT infrastructure and application services. HCL continues to significantly invest in Canada to build innovation and delivery…

MONTREAL, Jan. 19, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Web Hosting Canada (WHC) has officially completed its ICANN accreditation, becoming only the 18th accredited organization in Canada, and one of the only CIRA and ICANN accredited domain providers whose primary focus is the Canadian market.

“This accreditation is an important building block to help fulfill WHC’s long term vision. As a result, we’ll be able to offer better pricing and promotions along with improved access to premium and aftermarket domains, faster access to emerging TLDs and so much more,” explains Emil Falcon, WHC’s founder and CEO. He adds: “It’s also added assurance to prospective partners and clients that we have the financial stability and provide the necessary expertise to service their domain needs in…