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Well, it is not actually a monster-attack, but an attack on Monster.com by hackers who stole 1.6 Millions records of user data. Several phishing attacks trying to gain more user information, like bank account number and password, were reported. The emails were very realistic because they contained the user’s actual personal information.

Read more of it from BBC website.

Monster’s security notice and advice can be found here.

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