Monster Hack

[Lord Pikey]

Hackers are believed to have stolen the personal details of millions of people using the online job site Monster. Users around the world have been affected, including the 4.5 million users of the UK site. If all are affected it would make it the biggest data theft in the UK since the details of 25 million child benefit claimants went missing last year. The recruitment giant has advised people to change their passwords and be on the lookout for phishing e-mails. Recruitment sites have proved rich pickings for criminally-minded hackers in the past and it is not the first time Monster has fallen foul of cyber thieves. In 2007, 1.3 million details were downloaded to servers based in Ukraine.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7853251.stm

Doh, they've got my number....

LP

Edited by Lord Pikey on Tuesday 27th January 18:32

[siscar]

Lord Pikey said:

Hackers are believed to have stolen the personal details of millions of people using the online job site Monster. Users around the world have been affected, including the 4.5 million users of the UK site. If all are affected it would make it the biggest data theft in the UK since the details of 25 million child benefit claimants went missing last year. The recruitment giant has advised people to change their passwords and be on the lookout for phishing e-mails. Recruitment sites have proved rich pickings for criminally-minded hackers in the past and it is not the first time Monster has fallen foul of cyber thieves. In 2007, 1.3 million details were downloaded to servers based in Ukraine.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7853251.stm

Doh, they've got my number....

LP

Edited by Lord Pikey on Tuesday 27th January 18:32

Hmm, and I see their site is one of the few major ones built on Microsoft technology....

[Scraggles]

thought it happened last year actually it did and they let the hackers come back for a second swipe to grab the ones they missed

[Hoppy2008]

I've already had my first scam email...from an address [e-mail] !!

Beware people!