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Monster Waited 5 Days to Disclose Data Loss

A Reuters newswire article, via MSNBC, reports that:

Monster.com waited five days to tell users its system had been hacked, in a security breach that resulted in the theft of confidential information for more than a million users, a company executive told Reuters Thursday.

By the time the U.S. job-matching Web site shut down the illegal operation, run from two server computers at a Web-hosting company in Ukraine, the names and confidential contact information of some 1.3 million job seekers had been stolen, Patrick Manzo, vice president of compliance and fraud prevention for Monster Worldwide Inc, said in a phone interview.

Monster first learned of the problem on Aug. 17, when investigators with Internet security company Symantec Corp. told Monster that it was under attack, Manzo said.

posted by Fergie @ 8/23/2007 07:11:00 PM