Data thieves hit Monster.com site

Data thieves hit Monster.com site

By Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff | August 22, 2007

Thousands of names, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses stored by the Internet job-search site Monster.com have been stolen as part of a complex online fraud scheme.

Symantec Corp., a security company, disclosed the breach over the weekend after one of its researchers found that a server computer in Ukraine held 1.6 million records stolen from Monster, a New York company whose US operations are based in Maynard.

Not every stolen record included personal data, but Dave Cole, director of Symantec's security response team, estimated the thieves obtained names and addresses of hundreds of thousands of people.

Symantec notified Monster of the theft, and the company promised quick action.

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****************** Moderator's Note ******************

I'll skip the inevitable jokes about outsourcing jobs to the Ukraine.

Bray's article is too vague for any conclusions: it could be anything from a deep penetration of Monster's database to a piece of FUD from Symantec's PR staff.

My previous rant on this subject still stands: it's going to get a lot worse before it gets better.

Bill Horne Temporary Moderator

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