Million dollar homepage hacked

The FBI is investigating the hijacking of milliondollarhomepage.com - the website that earned $1m for its British creator Alex Tew by hosting micro-advertisements - by hackers who demanded a ransom to restore the site. Mr Tew was sent a demand for $50,000 by e-mail by a hacker, believed to be Russian. When he refused, the website crashed. The e-mail, which was made available exclusively to the Financial Times, read: “Hello u website is under us atack to stop the DDoS send us 50000$.” Too much attention and too much money isn’t great combination in this world…