In the Metro this morning there was some worrying news about Monster’s database being hacked in the USA.

According to the Metro, it seems that hackers were able to log on to the site posing as employers and search for the CV’s of individual candidates. They apparently used a “Trojan horse” type program which installs malicious software, this swiped names, email addresses, home addresses and phone numbers, yikes!

The article quotes a spokesman from Symantec as saying

Such a large database of highly personal information is a spammer’s dream

This has only affected users in the USA so far, although it highlights once again, the danger of uploading personal information to CV databases.