According to a warning posted on their site, Monster.com has suffered their second database breach in 18 months.
Names, birth dates, phone numbers, user IDs and passwords, email addresses, sex, and ethnicity data from millions of people in the job board’s database was illegally accessed. Monster is urging their users to change their logins immediately and to watch out for suspicious emails.
According to The Register, a Monster spokesperson said that they will not call users to warn them of the breach.
“We take this very seriously,” Nikki Richardson, spokesperson for Monster said. “We’re devoted to continuing to put significant resources toward the protection of our database, and no company in our business can completely prevent unauthorized access to data. We believe Monster security measures are as or more robust than other sites in the industry.”
Richardson declined to say when or how the breach occurred, but say that the persons responsible did not access resumes, social security numbers, or financial data.
In 2007 a Trojan Horse program accessed resume data belonging to over 1 million Monster customers. At the time, Monster explained plans to beef up security, but it appears the site is still vulnerable to attacks.
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January 26th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
They never cease to amaze. First a not very exciting relaunch and then a questionable breach. Does anything go right there?