Google "hacked our website"

A SCHOOL board has won a temporary injunction against the search engine outfit Google.

Judge Richard D. Boner (no really) issued the injunction in favour of Catawba County Schools which alleges conversion and trespass against Google.

The schools claim that Google's search engine spider grabbed information they shouldn't have and posted it on the Interweb.

The data included the names, Social Security numbers and test scores of 619 students which are still available online when the page was removed by the schools.

Catawba County Schools chief technology officer Judith Ray the information was stored in the system's DocuShare server, which required a username and password to access. She said that one of the students on the list had a presence on the Web. Google's web spider latched onto her name in this document.

"We were not aware that password-protected sites are set up like that. To our knowledge, Google could only cache unsecure information that did not require a password or username," she said.

A spokesGoogle said that it was impossible for its spider to bypass a password. µ

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