Monster.com site hacked
Published August 24th, 2007
Jobs portal Monster.com has released more details about the severity of the attack on its site.
It said confidential details of more than 1.3 million people, mainly Americans, were stolen by malicious hackers who carried out the attack.
It said that servers in the Ukraine and hijacked home computers were used to mount the attack.
Monster said the information was stolen to lend credibility to e-mails sent out as part of a phishing campaign.
The thieves got away with names, addresses, phone numbers and e-mail addresses of Monster.com users.
The job site said that the thieves did not get any useful financial information such as bank account details in the attack.
Monster told the Reuters news agency that it first heard about the attack on 17 August thanks to security firm Symantec.
The jobs portal said it managed to shut down the rogue servers used in the attack on 21 August after contacting the Ukranian company hosting them.
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