Monster.com warns job seekers of breac

Found on Security Focus on Friday, 23 January 2009
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Job site Monster.com acknowledged a breach of its user database late Friday, warning that online intruders made off with an unspecified number of job seekers' names, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, log-in names and passwords.

"We don't comment on investigations in progress or specific security measures," a Monster.com spokesperson stated in an e-mail sent to SecurityFocus on Saturday. "Immediately upon learning about this, we chose to notify all customers and job seekers as part of our ongoing effort to keep users informed about Internet security."

It sounds more like they should be "informed about Internet security"; after all, this is the second incident they've had. They should be able to come up with a routine for those breaches.