Monster.com hacked

Monster.com, an online recruitment site, has been broken into by hackers early this month. It was reported that data consisting of over 1.3 million job-seekers was stolen from the US resume library. This is probably one of the biggest security breech in history.

According to some sources, hackers broke into the password-protected resume library, which contains a database of over 73 million users. Reports claimed that personal computers were used to control two servers, located in Ukraine, by infecting them with malicious software program, and thus using these servers to break into the database library.

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The intrusion was unaware until Internet security company, Symantec told Monster.com that its server was under attack.

Based on the review result, the stolen information was limited to only names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses. No other details are known to have been compromised.

Though 1.3 million job-seekers' data had been stolen, it was also reported that less than 5,000 of them are based outside the United States. Among Monster.com's customers are large firms, such as Microsoft and Google.