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Sunday, October 25, 2009

500,000 Guardian Jobs users potentially compromised by hackers

The Guardian Jobs website, one of the top five employment sites in the UK with two million users logging in every month, was hacked over the weekend. The Guardian confirmed the breach on Saturday 24th October, stating that it had been alerted to the incident on Friday the 23rd. In a statement posted online it stated that it had been “assured by our provider that the system is now secure and we have identified and contacted everyone who may have been affected”.
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Co-founder of IT Security Thing Ltd, Davey Winder is a three time winner of the Information Security Journalist of the Year award (2006/2008/2010) and received the prestigious Enigma Award for his lifetime contribution to information security journalism in 2011.



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