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I also have heard of such a story. A friend of mine did something similar a long time ago.

Someone posted malicious stuff on his website, which showed up when googling my friends name. This costed him quite some business.

He knew the email address of the website owner, and the provider where the website was hosted. So he registered the same email address under a different free email hosting provider. Then he sent the website hoster an e-mail where he told them about a new email address and if they could change it. With that he could reset the password and delete the website.