Monster.com Attacked, User Data Stolen

Placid writes "The BBC has an article detailing a successful attack on the US recruitment site, Monster.com. 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.'"

Comments

Hehe

[JimboFBX]

Last year, a British nurse was blackmailed by hackers who had used a Trojan to access her personal e-mails. I'll let you guys stew on how ambiguiously funny that sentence is.

cue sound:

[doyoulikeworms]

M-M-M-Monster Kill (...kill...kill...kill...kill...)

Best headline ever

[FrostedWheat]

This story has the best headline I've seen on the BBC in a long time:

Monster attack steals user data

Ruh-roh! Someone call the Scooby Gang!

Re:Tomorrow's Ad today

[high_rolla]

Yeah, followed by the new marketing campaign: "Nobody else makes it this easy for your details to reach more employers"

Re:"US recruitment site"??

[Bloke down the pub]

Nobody speaks the English which was spoken when America was colonized.

Sir, you are quite mistaken, and if you persist in perpetuating these fallacious fripperies I shall be honour bound to demand that you perambulate into my vicinity and repeat them, on pain of fisticuffs. Good day!