The poor thing about the actual million dollar homepage is the creator (a university student trying to make some money to pay of his student debt) then got DDOS attacked to oblivion and had to spend a large amount of the money trying to keep the site up. The DDOS attackers obviously knew he had come in to a large amount of money and held him to ransom.

I hadn’t heard about that. Sounds like the attack itself and the resulting investigation weren’t very successful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage#DDo...