Actually there was another story somewhere on HN (i think) about a guy who did the same thing, only with data recovery. He would hijack a drive or a computer's

Actually there was another story somewhere on HN (i think) about a guy who did the same thing, only with data recovery. He would hijack a drive or a computer's components and tell the customers they needed to pay more money before he'd return them, often threatening them and telling them to go on yelp if they were angry