MSN Preview Search Employee Arrested for Hacking AltaVista

search-engines-web writes “Remember this story? Turns out that one of the people working on the search engine development is a former AltaVista employee and has been arrested on charges that he stole proprietary technology from AltaVista.

Suspect in AltaVista hacking case works at Microsoft [Seattle Post-Intelligencer]
Man Arrested In Search Engine Hacking Case Is Microsoft Employee [KIRO Seattle]