Blackmailers target $1m website

**Jared Moya** · January 18th, 2006, 10:18 AM

Alex Tew, 21, hit the headlines at the start of the year when he revealed his Million Dollar Homepage had made him a million dollars in four months.

But the publicity brought the unwanted attention of extortionists who knocked the site over with a massive denial-of-service attack.

Following a week of downtime, the website is now back online.

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**meyou123** · January 18th, 2006, 12:13 PM

LOL!! That is prett funny! The jerk deserved it!

**mountain_rage** · January 18th, 2006, 02:23 PM

Meyou can you explain to me why his legitamate website deserved to get a dos attack?

**kita** · January 19th, 2006, 09:23 AM

What A Holes

**SexKrazedMonkey** · January 19th, 2006, 02:59 PM

ingenius! who ever brings his idea down is just jealous. meyou123, ur a dumbass for calling him a jerk. his story even made cnn.com haha. kickass. i wish i came up wit that idea.

**Vopat12** · January 20th, 2006, 01:25 AM

I am sure lots of people wish they had done it first. meyou is just jealous that someone is smarter than he, or maybe its that he/she is bitter about how much they owe in student loans.