Eyewitness News made a stunning discovery on the streets of the Upper West Side Monday night. Scores of documents were found strewn on the street for anyone to pick up…. There were copies of bank statements, 401k statements, credit reports, tax returns and more driver’s licenses than we could count. […] The documents belonged to…
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Monster Says Hackers May Have Stolen Data in Several Countries
Simon Thiel reports: Monster Worldwide Inc., the operator of the most-used jobs Web site, said hackers may have stolen confidential details of users in more than one country after the Times reported the data of 4.5 million U.K. users was accessed. Monster hasn’t established which countries were affected, Michelle Brown, a company spokeswoman in London,…
UK: Hackers steal details of 4.5 million in attack on Monster jobs site
Alexi Mostrous reports: The personal details of millions of job seekers have been stolen in the largest data protection theft in Britain, The Times has learned. Hackers gained access to confidential information provided by 4.5 million people to Monster.co.uk, the online recruitment site. Names, passwords, telephone numbers, email addresses, birth dates, sex and ethnicity data…
Monster.com Reports Theft of User Data
Deja vu all over again… Nancy Gohring of IDG News Service reports: Monster.com is advising its users to change their passwords after data including e-mail addresses, names and phone numbers were stolen from its database. The break-in comes just as the swelling ranks of the unemployed are turning to sites like Monster.com to look for…
Patient data stolen in Japan
Ten patients’ personal information has been lost after a sales vehicle containing a set of documents was stolen from a car park. Details of the physicians looking after the patients are also missing, along with the name, date of birth, age, gender, blood test data and questionnaire sheets detailing reactions to medications of the people…
KR: Man who cloned star’s phone arrested
The head of a private detective agency allegedly involved in the cloning of actress Jun Ji-hyun’s cell phone was arrested yesterday. According to the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, the suspect, identified by the last name Kim, 39, duplicated the actress’s cell phone at the request of Sidus HQ, Jun’s management company. Kim allegedly received 6.4…