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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.'"
Good thing I have only used DICE. I can understand this better since it happened to Monster.com, a generic website that has jobs for the general public. If this occurred with DICE, then I'd be pissed. Dice is a website that helps techy people find techy jobs, I would hope the site is secured by techy people as well.