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Nomad559 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-21-07 04:58 AM
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Monster Attack Steals User Data
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6956349.stm

US job website Monster.com has suffered an online attack with the personal data of hundreds of thousands of users stolen, says a security firm.
A computer program was used to access the employers' section of website using stolen log-in credentials.

Symantec said the log-ins were used to harvest user names, e-mail addresses, home addresses and phone numbers, which were uploaded to a remote web server.

The stolen data could be used to send phishing and spam e-mails.

"This remote server held over 1.6 million entries with personal information belonging to several hundred thousands candidates, mainly based in the US, who had posted their resumes to the Monster.com website," reported Symantec.
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HysteryDiagnosis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-21-07 05:11 AM
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1. Not too much security in the homeland these days, probably an
Iraqi born just turned Alqaida operative. You know how many of them are created each day.
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Bitwit1234 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-21-07 06:50 AM
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2. I am beginning to believe that all this personal data stealing
is a government sponsored activity. How about it..
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