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Users around the world have been affected, including the 4.5 million users of the UK site.
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The recruitment giant has advised people to change their passwords and be on the lookout for phishing e-mails.
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Recruitment sites have proved rich pickings for criminally-minded hackers in the past and it is not the first time Monster has fallen foul of cyber thieves.
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In 2007, 1.3 million details were downloaded to servers based in Ukraine.
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Last year the details of 1.6 million jobseekers were stolen and followed by sustained phishing attacks, where people are fooled into installing malware via links in emails.
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CVs had not been accessed but other personal details saved to the site have been.
