Monster Data Theft Delay
24th Aug 2007
We last reported on the 22nd of August 2007 about the Monster website had been Hacked, apparently Monster had waited five days to tell its users about the security breach.
Reuters Reports, The Hackers launched the attack using two servers at a Web-hosting company in Ukraine and a group of personal computers that the hackers controlled after infecting them with a malicious software program known as Infostealer.Monstres, said Patrick Manzo, vice president of compliance and fraud prevention for Monster, in a phone interview to Reuters.
Manzo also said that based on Monster's review, the information stolen was limited to names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses, and no other details including bank account numbers were uploaded.
However On August 21 Security firm Symantec published their report on its website saying it found copies of scam e-mails that the engineers of the attack were using, view the report here.
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