Hackers attack Million Dollar Homepage

[3GN Media]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060118/ap_on_hi_te/britain_internet_ransom

LONDON - A Web site that earned an enterprising British student $1 million suffered a crippling attack by ransom-seeking hackers.

 

[BurninDragon08]

Yeah, that sucks.

 

[luxinterior]

There is already a pretty healthy thread relating to this and this is atleast the third time I have seen somebody posting the same topic.

Lux

 

[nick-8318]

http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=158716

 

[Olney]

Well hey I thought I couldn't access the site cause I use a Mac....
It was just hackers huh?

 

[Dannoth]

My dad told me about this, he said that the FBI have got involved!

 

[wasistdas]

I suppose it is a marketing move. Quite reasonable one. There was no major attacks against the site until Tew got his 1 mil. Now it is no interest to mass-media thus no interest to the general public. MDHP is going to be buried in the internet history. To hot up the interest it is necessary to run something like the attack. It is quite usual technique that came from political public relations. Nothing personal, just thoughts.