Side effects of the Monster Hack

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Side effects of the Monster Hack

It looks as though other job boards were affected by the recent hack of Monster.com. Just found this on Federaltimes.com. And David Manaster of ere just posted this note indicating job seeker theft is bigger than first anticipated.

Hackers have stolen the names, e-mail addresses and telephone numbers of about 146,000 subscribers to USAJOBS.gov, the Office of Personnel Management said Aug. 29.

The hackers accessed the information from the resume database run by Monster.com, which provides the technology for USAJOBS.gov, OPM said. Monster Worldwide told OPM that no Social Security numbers were compromised.

OPM said that because of the breach, job seekers could find themselves targeted by so-called “phishing” e-mails, possibly disguised as Monster.com or USAJOBS.gov messages. Phishing e-mails try to trick people into revealing sensitive information such as passwords or downloading malicious software.

Monster has identified and shut down the server that was accessing and collecting the information, OPM said.

Labels: Job boards

posted by C.M Russell # 6:01 AM

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