Meetup Knocked Offline by DDoS Attackers | Re/code

Held for three hundred dollars ransom

"Meetup is an unusually high-profile target for this kind of DDoS extortion. And the amount demanded is weirdly low. Meetup is a large company that had raised about $19 million in venture capital funding since 2002, and which recently closed a venture round of an undisclosed amount. Obviously the issue wasn’t the 300 bucks, but the fact that giving in would likely lead to a larger demand."

Meetup Knocked Offline by DDoS Attackers | Re/code