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Florida Man Holds Website Hostage

posted by on Tuesday December 27 2016, @07:39AM   Printer-friendly
from the taking-my-ball-and-going-home dept.

BK writes:

From WFTV news in Orlando, Florida:

A Florida company that sells online commercial payment software has sued its former chief technology officer, claiming that a porn site snapped up its web address when he allowed it to expire.

[...] The St. Petersburg company accuses co-founder and former CTO Lev Gorodinski of keeping vital passwords, software code and other sensitive information after abruptly quitting.

[...] Subsequently, all but one of Epay's 29 customers canceled their contracts, company officials said.

[...] The last customer, a preschool, left when the Epay web domain was turned into a pornography site, the lawsuit alleges.

The company's registration with GoDaddy expired and Gorodinski refused to give the company the information needed to access the account and re-establish its ownership, Epay officials claim.

Why is it always porn sites?

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 27 2016, @08:13AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 27 2016, @08:13AM (#446269)

    I had the opposite happen to me. A site I run for my own amusement has zero users, and I don't mind if anyone visits but no one ever does. A while back I moved the site to a new host, and by some coincidence I started receiving requests from crawlers looking for a former porn site. Since the porn site is gone the crawlers indexed my site instead, and now all the search engines find my obscure web site. It still has zero users.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 27 2016, @10:58AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 27 2016, @10:58AM (#446300)

    I know one guy who got the phone number of a defunct gay BBS.

    He tells me he got calls all hours of the night... on modem.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 27 2016, @04:24PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 27 2016, @04:24PM (#446369)

      How do you NOT do anything with that?

      Just hook up a software system to it.

      I wonder who these people are, man...

  • (Score: 2) by butthurt on Wednesday December 28 2016, @12:35AM

    by butthurt (6141) on Wednesday December 28 2016, @12:35AM (#446516) Journal

    Maybe your new hosting company made a page that links to your site, or maybe they took it upon themselves to submit your site to search engines.