Second Attack On Monster website Discovered

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Investigations into data breach uncover second attack on job website.

The attack on job website Monster.com has left more than 1.3 million users of the site open to identity theft. Monster's chief executive admitted that a second hack of the site went unnoticed.

Sal Iannuzzi said that further investigations by the company unearthed the second hit and said that the company had no idea how much information had been taken during the cyber onslaught or how many times the database had been accessed by criminals.

"We are assuming that it is a large number," he told Reuters. "It could easily be in the millions."

The company is promising to invest £40 to £50 million in traffic monitoring equipment to detect such breaches, but admitted that the website may never be safe.