When a hacker attacks a commercial website, they are generally looking to steal credit card details or other valuable data.

But the highly controversial conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has a different idea about why the online shop which funds his website Infowars has just been attacked.

The cyber shock-jock’s digital emporium is notorious for selling vitamin products with names like ‘Super Male Vitality’ or ‘Brain Force Plus’.

Alex Jones commands a huge audience but is accused of spreading fake news and conspiracy theories (Picture: InfoWars)

In a statement, Alex Jones said the Infowars Store was hacked within the last 24 hours.

Jones said the attackers then ‘reported this to the establishment corporate press in an attempt to scare business away from Infowarstore.com’.

Metro understands that Jones was contacted by two different news sites and then published his statement on Infowars before their articles went live.

Alex Jones is dealing well with his Twitter ban pic.twitter.com/jFmN7Zfqsb — PeterNorway (@classiclib3ral) September 7, 2018

Jones, who was recently banned from Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, went on to claim that he was under attack by lefty spooks working with Silicon Valley and the Chinese government to stop his website from earning the money it needs to survive.

‘This is a zero-day hack probably carried out by leftist stay behind networks hiding inside US intelligence agencies,’ he wrote in a statement published on Infowars.

He added: ‘Bottom line: this latest action is a concerted effort to de-platform Infowars by Big Tech, the communist Chinese and the Democratic party who have been publicly working and lobbying to wipe Infowars from the face of the earth.

‘In summation, America is under attack by globalist forces and anyone standing up for our republic will be attacked mercilessly by the corporate press, Antifa and rogue intelligence operatives.

‘Infowars will never surrender!’

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In a study published earlier this year, the tech firm Verizon analysed 53,000 incidents and 2,216 confirmed data breaches to find that 76% were ‘financially motivated’.

It’s up to you decide whether this was a hack committed in the hope of stealing credit card details or part of a wider conspiracy intended to shut down Infowars.