Monster.com Data Is Breached

Symantec notified Monster.com that they were under attack on August 17. Attackers using a web server in Ukraine, with credentials gathered using a Trojan, were able to gain access to a secured web server in the United States containing resumes of Monster.com subscribers. Monster.com did not officially disclose knowledge of the attack until 5 days later, and announced on Thursday, August 23 that an estimated 1.3 million Monster.com user's personal information records were compromised. For more details about the data breach and what Symantec found in their investigation, you can read Monster waited five days to disclose data breach from ITPro.