User data stolen from job site Monster
January 20, 2009 (Cnet)
Monster, the employment job site that boasts the largest job search engine in the world, recently announce that its database of user account information was illegally accessed and that data was stolen. The database holds data included: user IDs, passwords, e-mail addresses, names, phone numbers, and some demographic data.
Security firm AppRiver has said in a recent report Internet security threats that job sites are a likely target during an economic downturn.
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