Monster.com Attacked, User Data Stolen 196
Placid writes "The BBC has an article detailing a successful attack on the US recruitment site, Monster.com. According to the article, 'A computer program was used to access the employers' section of the website using stolen log-in credentials' and that the stolen details were 'uploaded to a remote web server'. Apparently, this remote server 'held over 1.6 million entries with personal information belonging to several hundred thousands of candidates, mainly based in the US, who had posted their resumes to the Monster.com website'. The article also links the break-in to a phishing e-mail sent out recently where personal details were used to entice users to download a 'Monster Job Seeker Tool.'"
Tomorrow's Ad today (Score:5, Funny)
New sysadmin. Must have experience in data security. Submit resume to adminjob@monster.com
Phishing Attack (Score:4, Funny)
o noes (Score:2, Funny)
Hehe (Score:5, Funny)
The real question is (Score:1, Funny)
In Soviet Russia... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Phishing Attack (Score:5, Funny)
cue sound: (Score:5, Funny)
They got me! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Tomorrow's Ad today (Score:4, Funny)
Copied, not stolen (Score:4, Funny)
New ads on Monster tomorrow: (Score:3, Funny)
Best headline ever (Score:5, Funny)
This story has the best headline I've seen on the BBC in a long time:
Ruh-roh! Someone call the Scooby Gang!
Re:Tomorrow's Ad today (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Phishing Attack (Score:4, Funny)
remember, these are the type of people who were putting "5 years experience required in windows 2003 admin" in 2005.
Re:Porn (Score:5, Funny)
>thousands of minutes of erotic movies
TIP: say hundreds of *hours*. Saying minutes really implies your target audience don't umm, last very long IYSWIM. Not good marketing to insult them up front.
Re:"US recruitment site"?? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Monster doesn't help anyway--why use it? (Score:4, Funny)
Craigslist...right.... Lots of ads, like the following:
WEB DEVELOPER needed for growing company, must be prorficient [sic] in PHP, ASP, ASP.NET, C++, Java and XHTML. Students welcome. $10 hr.
Oh, and here's a title from an actual ad now running (you can't make this stuff up):
Big Dog Web Developers Needed for a Big Back End
I don't even want to know.
Re:Phishing Attack (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Blame the data security officers & project (Score:4, Funny)
I'd love to, but then I'd actually have to RTFA, and I don't have time today. I have to get a copy of my birth certificate and a visa, so I can help out my new Nigerian friend with a lucrative situation.