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”.