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400,000 email addresses accessed through RecruitIreland data breach

Published 20:50 9 Feb 2011 GMT

Updated 03:25 1 Jun 2013 BST

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400,000 email addresses accessed through RecruitIreland data breach

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Popular recruitment website RecruitIreland.com has been forced to close temporarily after 400,000 registered users’ email addresses were compromised.

The site is offline after the company learnt of the breach through several spam emails similar to the one below, which most users would have received.

RecruitIreland.com believe their database was breached in order to attain email addresses and names for spamming purposes.

The following is information issued by the company to users who could be effected.

  • Data compromised was first name, last name and email address
  • As a result you may receive a spam email with your first name, last name included
  • Your anti-spam software should catch it
  • Please do not reply to this mail from the spammers or comply with any requests for information such as bank account details etc.

From RecruitIreland's investigations to date no other data, including CVs, usernames or passwords have been compromised.

400,000 email addresses accessed through RecruitIreland data breach