Monster.com hit by personal data attack

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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