This weekend, hackers stole 1.6 million files from Monster.com, one of the country’s most popular job-searching Web sites, according to a top security company.<\/p>\n
Symantec, which produces well-respected anti-virus software that is used worldwide, detected the problem late last week, Patrick Martin, a senior product manager on Symantec’s security response team.<\/p>\n
Thursday, the company found some malicious code.<\/p>\n
“We saw that it was doing some interesting things with some information over in Eastern Europe,” Martin said. After investigating more, Symantec found that the e-mail addresses and names all had one thing in common \u0014 they were stolen from Monster.com.
\nThe hackers’ Trojan virus, which used real employer log-ons and passwords to access information, transferred the data from the site to a server in Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n
“The attacks started soon after that,” Martin said. “Whenever you see malicious code harvesting e-mail addresses, we know what’s going to follow \u0014 e-mails.”<\/p>\n
Almost immediately after Symantec detected the problem, Monster.com users whose e-mail addresses had ostensibly been stolen began receiving “phishing” e-mails. These e-mails, according to Martin, claimed to be prospective employers offering a work-from-home job. All that was needed, the e-mails claimed, was access to the user’s bank account. The e-mails specifically reference Bank of America accounts as well as Monster.com and CareerBuilder.com, another popular job-search site.<\/p>\n
“What they did was a slightly more sophisticated attack than we normally see. All of these e-mails have one thing in common \u0014 people who have submitted resumes and are looking for a job,” Martin said. “When the user looks at the e-mail \u0014 some unknown e-mail that happens to know that they are looking, [they have a] sense of security [and they think,] ‘Wow, this must be legitimate.'”
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