Seems like the article is incomplete. Another hour or two of investigation, actually proving a malware connection would have been really interesting. TLDR: It'

Seems like the article is incomplete. Another hour or two of investigation, actually proving a malware connection would have been really interesting. TLDR: It's not a legitimate site, they're probably doing something silly, though not able to reproduce, and was able to find contact info on whois (assuming scammers don't know how to mask identities).