Data breach at recruitment site

By Aoife Carr, The Irish Times

Gardaí are investigated a security breach at the recruitment website RecruitIreland.com.

It is thought that names and e-mail addresses of those registered with the site were accessed for spamming purposes. The site was shut down yesterday afternoon when the breach was noticed.

Gardaí  and the Data Protection Commissioner have been informed.

CVs, usernames and passwords are not thought to have been compromised.

In a statement, the company said it was taking the incident very seriously. It warned users not to reply to any spam email or comply with any requests for information such as bank account details.

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 Here is the official statement from RecruitIreland.com

Databreach on RecruitIreland.com

We are sending you this email to notify you of a breach of our data today. At 1.50pm we became aware of the breach. Following this we received several spam emails similar to the one below (which you may also have received by now).