Filed under: Bad news, Consumer experience, eBay (EBAY), Scandals, Monster Worldwide (MNST)

For hundreds of thousands of eager job hunters out there, one of the quickest way to get their resumes out to perspective employers is using the online job site from Monster Worldwide (NASDAQ: MNST), Monster.com.

It all seems easy enough; just post your resume and wait for the job offers to roll in. Well, it has been discovered that hackers have cracked into the site’s database in order to garner personal information that could help them tailor targeted “phishing emails” to the site’s users.

“Phishing” is a long running problem for unsuspecting internet users, where users get e-mails — seemingly from respected companies — that convince them to log into various sites and turn over personal information. The most lucrative phishing programs come to users from sites pretending to be bank institutions, or large internet sites such as eBay.com. These try to get the users to log onto the sites and update passwords, or something similar.

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