I
n
what is being described as a “deliberate and sophisticated crime,” the
Guardian newspaper in the U.K. says the careers section of its Web site
was hacked, exposing sensitive data belonging to about half a million
users.
According to a note posted online by the Guardian:
The
police remain anxious to keep information about the apparent theft to a
minimum, in order not to compromise their investigations, but did agree
with us that we could inform those users who may be affected. We stress
our regret that this breach has occurred. This is apparently a
deliberate and sophisticated crime, of which the Guardian is a victim
in addition to some of our users.
It is
clear that only a minority of Guardian Jobs users are at risk. Some of
the data which appears to have been stolen is up to two years old. We
have emailed the approximately half a million users whose data may have
been compromised. This is out of the total of 10,328,290 unique users
the site has per calendar year.
The USA jobs site (www.guardianjobs.com) has not been affected.
There are no details available on the type of data that was
compromised but it’s likely the information includes CVs and resumes
from job seekers who registered on the Guardian’s Jobs section.
