Monster.com hacked

Monster.com, the employment seeker and recruiter site, reported last Thursday that its databases were hacked by outsiders who stole "Monster user IDs and passwords, email addresses, names, phone numbers, and some basic demographic data." No social security or financial data was compromised.

Monster said “we recently learned our database was illegally accessed and certain contact and account data were taken, including Monster user IDs and passwords, email addresses, names, phone numbers, and some basic demographic data.” The company is recommending you immediately change your password and look out for phishing emails. USAJOBS (the U.S. government official job site) was also affected.

In 2007, hackers again attacked Monster.com with malicious ads that even if not clicked, still installed malicious code on the local machine and stole personal information from Monster. The personal information was then sent to a remote server. During that specific attack, more than 1.6 million entries of personal information from Monster.com users was compromised, according to internet security company Symantec.