Is the monster loose? User data compromised.
August 30th, 2007 | by Brook Durant |
Is the monster loose? User data compromised.
It seems that the monster has fallen prey to hackers and the data of millions of users has been compromised.
BOSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The theft of contact information for job seekers in the database of Monster Worldwide Inc was greater than the 1.3 million individuals the company reported last week, Chief Executive Sal Iannuzzi said on Wednesday.
While investigating the recent theft, the company learned that its Web site had previously been hacked.
“We’re assuming it is a large number. It could easily be in the millions,” Iannuzzi said in an interview with Reuters.
The hackers didn’t get the kind of information it takes to pull money out of a bank account, according to Monster.com, but the contact data is valuable to criminals who use social engineering techniques to conduct scams.
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By James - Visualized.Feel.Abundance on Aug 30, 2007
Saw that on our local newspaper. As bad as it looks, I hope they didn’t put too much confidential data on Monster.
By A Blog about Nothing on Aug 30, 2007
James - I don’t know. I suppose it would depend on which database was compromised. It’s been years since I used Monster though I’m sure they haven’t purged my data.