Hackers have carried out a revenge attack against the Manhattan Supreme Court for forcing Google to reveal the identity of a blogger who called a model a "skank" and a "ho."
The attack prevents users from accessing the Manhattan Supreme Court's document Web site, SCROLL New York, through Google. When users type the search item "SCROLL New York" into the Google search bar, they are taken to to a PDF file of the lawsuit brought by model Liskula Cohen demanding to know the identity of a blogger who wrote derogatory comments about her, reports the New York Post.
SCROLL New York is a database of the lawsuits filed in the Manhattan Supreme Court system. The link to the PDF only happens through Google and no other search engines.
In August, the Court ordered Google to expose rival model Rosemary Port as the blogger who called Cohen "skank" and "ho."
Cohen claimed the comments posted on the blog "Skanks in New York" defamed her in the lawsuit.
Port maintains that Google violated her privacy in providing her name and that Cohen brought the media attention on herself.
"Before her suit, there were probably two hits on my Web site: one from me looking at it, and one from her looking at it," Port said in an August interview with the Daily News.
Port said she was planning on filing a $15 million federal lawsuit against Google for releasing her name, according to the Daily News.
