[yogo]

Claiming it was against the terms might be an easy out for them but is silly since being a target is outside of your control, for the most part. Hosts will usually null route customers without sympathy to protect other customers so it's the price of doing business.

[kalleboo]

It makes a DDoS an even better extortion. "Pay up or we'll get you kicked from your hosting provider."

[alxndr]

"...and potentially lose all of your data, if you haven't been planning ahead"