Hackers have stolen millions of jobseekers personal details from the online job recruitment agency Monster. In a statement released by Monster, it said that the internet thief’s has stolen confidential information from its database including login names and passwords, email addresses and telephone numbers.
The agency went on to say that the information taken did not contain any CV’s, personal financial data or national insurance numbers. Customers of Monster are now being urged to change their passwords when they log into the website.
There are nearly 4.5 million people registered users of the Monster.co.uk website, and it is not known how many of them have been affected by the breach. The agency has launched a full investigation into the incident and added ‘corrective measures’ to its website. This latest theft could turn out to be the biggest data loss since the loss of around 25 million child benefit recipients’ data last year.
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