About 146,000 people using a US government jobs website
managed by Monster.com have had their personal information stolen
by hackers,reports Reuters.
The data theft from the
USAjobs.gov site - which has
around 2,000,000 users - was part of the hacking operation on the
Monster.com site that was eventually uncovered and disclosed by
Monster last week (19 August).
The US government disabled the jobs database after discovering
the theft, reports Reuters.
Information stolen from the USAjobs.gov database included names,
addresses, phone numbers and e-mail addresses. Social Security
numbers, which are encrypted, were not compromised, said
Reuters.
Monster says millions of personal files may have been
compromised worldwide, with the hacking operation said to have been
run out of eastern Europe.