MillionDollarHomePage hacked and up for ransom by hackers
Alex Tew was contacted by e-mail by a probably Russian hacker and was demanded to pay $50,000. When he refused, MillionDollarHomePage was hacked and went offline for a few days.
The FBI is investigating this.
Read the whole story here
Don’t know if it’s true but it certainly will get some additional publicity for pixel advertising industry. Newspapers are writing about it again.
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on January 24th, 2006 at 4:24 pm
It’s certainly unfortunate that any person or group would hold a site “ransom” via a DDoS attack, although it happens all the time. Alex had a great idea with the milliondollarhomepage site and shouldn’t be targeted for his successes. Let’s hope the FBI and NHTCU are able to identify the culprit(s).
I have my own site, http://www.buckabyte.com , which puts a new spin on the pixel ad concept by selling by the BYTE instead. I have to hand it to Alex… it takes a good deal of work and time to set up the site, process ads & try to get the word out… I know I would hate to have to deal with the headache of a DDoS attack. Maybe it’s to be expected that once you reach some degree of success, there will be those who try to knock you down.
on June 27th, 2006 at 2:47 pm
Russian girl sells her body on internet….
She is russian and she is trying to sell her part of the body in a shape of pixels on her web page…. http://www.isellbody.com/
thought it is interesting….
on June 28th, 2006 at 11:34 pm
I believe that Alex’s site still generates some indirect value for advertisers at least by improving their visibility in search engines. It has a PageRank of 7 and many still continue to add links to it (by the way, this article has just added one link). So, getting the link from website with such a high PageRank for as low as 1$ it is clearly a reasonable investment. Good luck to all the copycats
http://www.milliondollarhosting.net
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