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    Know Your Breach: Monster.com

    Sep 13, 2019 1:57:12 PM

    The target: Monster.com, a popular job posting website service.

    The take: Personal information of hundreds of job applicants dating between 2014 and 2017 including: resumes, phone numbers, email addresses, home addresses and work history.

    The attack vector: A customer of Monster.com, a third-party recruitment company, misconfigured a publicly-accessible web server, leaving records exposed.

    A firm’s security posture is only as good as its weakest link - sub-contractors and third parties with access to sensitive data are possible sources of data leakage and must be held to a firm’s own security standards.

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    Topics:Know Your Breach

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