Monster.com hit by personal data attack

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US recruitment firm Monster.com has been hit by an attack that has compromised over 1.6 million pieces of information, including personal data. The attack follows warnings that recruitment sites are a rich target for identity thieves.

The employers' section of the recruitment website has been broken into by a program which then harvested 1.6 million pieces of information and stored them somewhere the people behind the hack could access them, according to security firm Symantec.

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