Monster.com Database Theft

- Most recent attack announced: January 23, 2009
- No resumes were stolen in the theft
- Three published attacks came in 2007Computerworld: href="http://www.computerwo... Reports Theft of User Data (January 24, 2009)
- No misuse has been reported

The job seeking website Monster.com has been hit with a database theft. On January 23, 2009 the website reported that user IDs and passwords were stolen including names, e-mail addresses, birth dates, gender, ethnicity and more. As of January 24, no misuse of the information had been reported. Monster.com has not yet released an email to its users to make them aware of the problem. Computerworld: Monster.com Reports Theft of User Data (January 24, 2009)
What To Do

Every member of Monster.com has been asked to changed their password immediately. Monster.com warns that phishing emails may be sent due to the breech, but to only access Monster.com by visiting the main website, not by clicking any link in your email.Monster.com: Official Notice (January 23, 2009)
2007 Attacks

Monster.com reported that hackers used compromised employer log-on credentials to access its database of user resumes. The company is reported to have shut down a rogue database housing stolen data. In other incidents that happened in 2007, one time Monster.com was breached and installed a trojan on visitors to the website. In the other incident, malicious code was inserted to the website and downloaded a virus to all visitors.Computerworld: Monster.com Reports Theft of User Data (January 24, 2009)

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Monster.com Database Theft News
1. NPR: Scope of Monster.com Data Theft Widens (August 24, 2007)
2. Los Angeles Times: Thieves target Monster.com users (August 23, 2007)
3. BBC News: Monster attack steals user data (August 21, 2007)
4. PC World: href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/... Data Theft may be Bigger (August 20, 2007)