Here's a bit more detail on that 12 million hits...
The surfing habits that will bring a visit from the cops
The latest high-profile pedophile bust began when a hacker infiltrated a respectable European website and placed 99 degrading and explicit images of young girls from eastern Europe, the US and Paraguay. The site got 12 million hits worldwide in the few days that followed. Almost 150,000 different computer users from 170 countries accessed the obscure site, including Australians using 2883 computer IP addresses. Australian authorities have since seized more than 1 million child exploitation images and uncovered 90 alleged local offenders.