Hackers Steal Personal Info of 4.5 Million People

Posted: 27th January 2009 by Simo Häyhä in Politics

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Hackers are believed to have stolen the personal details of millions of people using the online job site Monster.Users around the world have been affected, including the 4.5 million users of the UK site.

If all are affected it would make it the biggest data theft in the UK since the details of 25 million child benefit claimants went missing last year.

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  1. Veritas says:

    Gee, seems like society’s comforts can cause them pain. Oh, and all of you who store everything on your phones (I-Phone users), it’s all kept in a database through apple. Guarantee, somebody is reading your personal info somewhere, right now. Technology is an amazing convenience, but we should be wary of becoming dependent on it, or thinking it can’t be used negatively against us. Criminals are always a step ahead of the law, that’s how they stay in business…

  2. Kyszer Sosay says:

    Im glad I use CraigsList.