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The popular website to find work Monster Worldwide announced on Tuesday that some hackers managed to enter the database and steal personal information from customers.

Monster spokeswoman, Nikki Richardson confirmed that the pirates went to many sites around the world, but said that some regions, particularly Asia Pacific and Eastern Europe, were unaffected.


He said that Monster is working with the security organs appropriate "but declined to say which countries. An investigation is under way in the United States, where the company is based.

Monster has users in some 36 countries, including 45 million in Britain. This is the second attack suffered by Monster software in 18 months.


A statement on the site 'www.monster.com' indicates that we learned recently that they illegally entered our database and extracted data from contacts and accounts, including usernames and passwords, email addresses, names, phone numbers and other data. "

The company said that hackers had access to no social security numbers nor the resumes of the clients. Now the company warned that intruders can use the stolen information to "catch" other.