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Are you this guy http://thedailywtf.com/articles/The_Spider_of_Doom? Or http://craigandera.blogspot.com/2004/04/beware-googlebot_12....? (They seem like the same story but have different names.)

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Probably not. This happens more than you might think. I got called in to consult on a project where something similar was happening. Client would add products to their web store and the next day the products were missing.

Unsecured access and 'GET' based deletes were everywhere.

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