Mobsters Take Down Million Dollar Homepage with Dos Attack?

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I was just checking my spam folder and came across a message from Alex Tew of Million Dollar Homepage fame. He’s the guy that sold pixels on his site and raised $1,037,100 for college in less than five months.

Anyhow, it seems the site was taken down for six days by a Denial of Service (DoS) Attack “by hackers who tried to extort $50,000″ from Tew.

Could it be a digital mafia trying to shake down this crafty and innovative marketer, or another clever attention grab?