Monster.com discloses data theft
Employment site reveals theft of contact info for 1.3 million job seekers five days after breach.
August 23 2007: 10:38 PM EDT
BOSTON (Reuters) -- Monster.com waited five days to tell users its system had been hacked, in a security breach that resulted in the theft of confidential information for more than a million users, a company executive told Reuters Thursday.
By the time the job-matching Web site shut down the illegal operation, run from two server computers at a Web-hosting company in Ukraine, the names and confidential contact information of some 1.3 million job seekers had been stolen, Patrick Manzo, vice president of compliance and fraud prevention for Monster Worldwide (Charts), said in a phone interview.
Monster first learned of the problem on Aug. 17, when investigators with Internet security company Symantec (Charts) told Monster that it was under attack, Manzo said.
Monster first told its customers about the data loss on Aug. 22 in a notice posted on its home page, www.monster.com. It warned them that their contact data might have been stolen and that the thieves had already sent spam to some Monster users asking for personal financial information and trying to get them to download malicious software.
Monster then announced on Thursday that names and contact information of some 1.3 million job seekers had been stolen.
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, Aug 23 2007 11:41 PM
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