Monster Waited 5 Days To Tell of Leaked Information

This article appealed to me and how that the largest job seeking company waited nearly five days before telling its users that they were hacked. August 17, 2007 is when Monster first noticed there was a problem with their internet security. The illegal operation was run from two server computers at a web-hosting company in Ukraine. Monster has nearly 1.3 million job seeker records to this date, and the names and confidential contact information was stolen. The security team got the servers shut down late in the evening on August 20, 2007. Monsters web page was warning people that their information might have been stolen. The effects of this type of an attack are very dangerous, because it now puts people at risk for phone calls trying to get personal information, identity theft of information, or spam email so greatly that it will become hard to detect. If a user was to open this spam email and it was to load malicious content on the machine it could breech system security and open up a backdoor for them to gain more personal information. I am a Monster user and I have not noticed any usual spamming lately. The bad part about this situation though is whoever got the information, has full contact with names, addresses, and phone numbers. I am a little concerned at the present moment but hopefully everything will remain safe.