10 Data Breaches That Shook the World


Monster.com

In mid 2007, a group of hackers who had set up their server in Ukraine had breached into the most popular job recruitment site in U.S., allegedly by using High Profile user IDs. The hackers generated spam and published them to other users to collect financial information. The hackers even blackmailed the user by installing viruses on their PCs and threatening them to completely format the systems if not paid. According to the reports, there were 1.3 million users who have been the victim of this cyber attack.

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