Monster.com Attacked, Resumes Stolen

Started by TehBorken, Aug 22 07 05:14

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TehBorken

Whoops. If you had a resume on Monster.com, consider it stolen along with all the info you had put in it. [hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"]
 The BBC has an article detailing a [a href="vny!://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6956349.stm"]successful attack on the US recruitment site, Monster.com[/a]. According to the article, 'A computer program was used to access the employers' section of the website using stolen log-in credentials' and that the stolen details were 'uploaded to a remote web server'. Apparently, this remote server 'held over 1.6 million entries with personal information belonging to several hundred thousands of candidates, mainly based in the US, who had posted their resumes to the Monster.com website'. The article also links the break-in to a phishing e-mail sent out recently where personal details were used to entice users to download a 'Monster Job Seeker Tool.  
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