monster.com was raided by trojam

[hazephase]

The job site monster.com was raided and a huge list of people where taken .
"To the best of our knowledge, this is not a hack of Monster's security, rather, legitimate customer credentials are being used to log in to the database," said Patrick W. Manzo, vice president of compliance and fraud prevention at Monster.

[James]

The job site monster.com was raided and a huge list of people where taken .
"To the best of our knowledge, this is not a hack of Monster's security, rather, legitimate customer credentials are being used to log in to the database," said Patrick W. Manzo, vice president of compliance and fraud prevention at Monster.

That is not good news. I use monster as I suspect do a lot of others. Is there any way of finding out what we need to do to protect our identity?

[JenniP]

Never put any details online? Thats about the only way you can protect against the kind of "hack" that was done on Monster.

Monster itself was still secure, the data leakage was due to someone having a key logger on their machine and the key logger captured the Monster Admin user id and password.

Jen

[hazephase]

I would advise people not to keep your profile online cause of the leakage but you can look of people who want to hire online , what do you think about .

[James]

I would advise people not to keep your profile online cause of the leakage but you can look of people who want to hire online , what do you think about .

Monster and other job sites produce a very useful service with allowing you to put up searchable profiles for employers to look up. Sometimes it is better if the job finds you. So I say that it could be worth the risk

[hitler]

Monster.com is providing a very good service for the unemployed persons. The site is providing very good job opportunities to all according to their resumes.

[hazephase]

While then I would have to say that it is up to you and if you feel that there is no problem with you resumes on the site then go ahead . As long as people are getting some good out of it .

[Alec]

That's why nobody should use Monster.com.

[James]

I got a reply from them the other day starting "Dear Valued Monster Customer,"

Apparantly I'm safe but it's always funny when they say "Dear Valued Customer" it's usually code for "Please, please, don't go."

[James]

That's why nobody should use Monster.com.

There are ups and downs in most things and whenever you take advantage of anything online you are risking a certain amount of privacy. It is too simplistic to say "nobody should use Monster".