Ed Dickson
The recent reports about 1.3 million Monster users having their information stolen from the job site has become somewhat of a major news story. While this seems shocking, the truth is that job sites have been targeted by Internet criminals for information for several years now.
Jim Finkle at Retuers (courtesy of the Washington Post) recently covered this story:
Monster.com waited five days to tell its users about a security breach that resulted in the theft of confidential information from some 1.3 million job seekers, a company executive told Reuters on Thursday.
Hackers broke into the U.S. online recruitment site’s password-protected resume library using credentials that Monster Worldwide Inc said were stolen from its clients, in one of the biggest Internet security breaches in recent memory.
For the entire story go to Topix.net
Nary a week goes by that Corra isn’t approached by some scamming group to run background checks for them. the phony job offer it would seem is a new subdivision to the phony money lenders and the phony. If you are a job seeker, or your are a staffing group that is approached by what may be an illicit operation you should check out the company that offers you the position.
Or you could ignore them. But suppose they are for real, and if you are a legitimate staffing group of HR Unit who may have found a new channel for candidate provision, you don’t want to pass it up. So what to do?
Do some background checking. In addition to the criminal background search Corra can conduct business credit reports and comprehensive background searches on the listed individuals. We can also conduct business research on the company itself.
So don’t take a chance, but don’t let opportunity pass you by. Check them out before you get involved.
