The BBC are reporting that the Monster.com recruitment site has been attacked, and that up to 1.6 million people could have had their personal details stolen.
The attackers apparently gained access to the employers section of the website through a stolen ID, and then proceeded to upload the data to a remote server.
Symantec were the first to report the theft after they noticed phising emails being sent to Monster.com users containing personal details. The emails direct the user to a website that contains a trojan that encrypts the data on a users hard-drive and demands a ransom to decrypt it.
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