Monster website security breach / ID theft

Gingerbird

Hi everyone,

can you please give me some advice on this:

I have a profile with the Monster website (like many other people that are jobhunting), and they were hacked into recently and people's personal details stolen.:mad:
Experts say this may cause issues of identity theft in the future as those responsible can apply for credit etc under the names n details of people listed with Monster.

My question is: Those who are registered there, how can we keep an eye on this? I recently signed up with Experian to check my credit rating (just for the free period) n unsubscribed again.
How an I keep an eye out for identity theft n monitor what's happing under my name, without having to sign up with an expensive website all my life?

DCFC79

Gingerbird wrote: »

Hi everyone,

can you please give me some advice on this:

I have a profile with the Monster website (like many other people that are jobhunting), and they were hacked into recently and people's personal details stolen.:mad:
Experts say this may cause issues of identity theft in the future as those responsible can apply for credit etc under the names n details of people listed with Monster.

My question is: Those who are registered there, how can we keep an eye on this? I recently signed up with Experian to check my credit rating (just for the free period) n unsubscribed again.
How an I keep an eye out for identity theft n monitor what's happing under my name, without having to sign up with an expensive website all my life?

well getting a credit report is the only way i know of doing that, there could be something else available which is as good but not as costly