'Internet job recruitment website Monster.com has been hacked by cyber criminals, who have stolen the personal details of some of the site's millions of online users.'

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'Internet job recruitment website Monster.com has been hacked by cyber criminals, who have stolen the personal details of some of the site's millions of online users.'

The security breach is thought to have affected users all over the world, including some of the 4.5 million registered Monster.co.uk users.Monster has advised users to change their password when next logging on to the site.

"As is the case with many companies that maintain large databases of information, Monster is the target of illegal attempts to access and extract information from its database," said Patrick Manzo, the company's sentior vice-president, in a statement. He warned that hackers could use the email address information they had stolen to "phish" for further personal information through fraudulent email messages.

Monster refused to say how many people had been affected by the data breach, but said the appropriate authorities had been informed and that an investigation was under way.

The company said that no national insurance numbers, personal financial data or CVs had been stolen.

Security experts warned that because many computer users use the same login and password for multiple online service, banking details and other sensitive information could be at risk.

"It's a horrendous breach," said Graham Cluley, a security expert with Sophos. "The information they have can be used to cause all kinds of mischief.

base on the fact, this story is not a new one and this is the second time that the company has allowed to this happen. This simply indicates the lack of security on the website rather than the intelligency of the hackers. the cases like this is involve public low issue that causes distrustfulness between job seekers and online job recruitment websites .Here, many people  might prefer to look for the jobs via newspapers and other resources rather than  doing it online and employers do the same thing. 

Source:

Beaumont, Claudine. "Hackers Steal User Details from Monster.com Jobs Website - Telegraph."Telegraph.co.uk: News, Business, Sport, the Daily Telegraph Newspaper, Sunday Telegraph - Telegraph. 28 Jan. 2009. Web. 11 Aug. 2010. .