Tag: MONSTER.COM

It was about 18 months ago that Monster.com's databases were hacked, compromising the personal information of roughly 1.2 million registrants (most of whom had signed up looking for a job, not for a new way to have their phone numbers stolen0. The job-seeker's site, of course, pledged to fix the hole right away, but, sadly, didn't do a particularly good job of it, as we're hearing that the ...

It's been a terrible decade or so for print newspapers around the world. As more and more people go online to get their news, fewer need a (non-free) printed version cluttering up their mailboxes. Then came sites like Craigslist, killing any profits earned from the printed classifieds section, and Monster.com, doing the same for the help wanted section. That doesn't leave much left to cherry pick, ...

Monster.com has recently come under attack from hackers, spammers and phishers (people who send phony e-mails to lure users into providing login info to banking and other personal accounts). The casualties of war: your personal information. After stealing the usernames and passwords of legitimate recruiters on Monster, the hackers were able to craft personalized phishing e-mails to job seekers ...