Blackmailers target $1m website
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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. Then came the online attacks… Go figure!
Mr Tew’s encounter with the net criminals began on 7 January when he received an e-mail threatening to bombard the site with data unless he paid a ransom of $5,000 (2,800). He did not respond and the 10 January deadline passed without incident. But the following day the site went down, and has only been up intermittently since then. A series of other e-mails, upping the ransom to $50,000 (28,000), followed.
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