Guardian Jobs Website hacked?

That's what happened when I first looked and I just thought I had
inadvertantly clicked on another link.

 

Works fine here.

"Guardian Jobs Security Update

Security update - 25 October 2009

We have been assured by our provider that the system is now secure and,
in line with the Information Commissioner’s guidance on data protection,
we have identified and contacted, or attempted to contact, everyone who
may be at risk.

The police remain anxious to keep information about the apparent theft to
a minimum, in order not to compromise their investigations, but did agree
with us that we could inform those users who may be affected. We stress
our regret that this breach has occurred. This is apparently a deliberate
and sophisticated crime, of which the Guardian is a victim in addition to
some of our users.

It is clear that only a minority of Guardian Jobs users are at risk. Some
of the data which appears to have been stolen is up to two years old. We
have emailed the approximately half a million users whose data may have
been compromised. This is out of the total of 10,328,290 unique users the
site has per calendar year. The USA jobs site (www.guardianjobs.com) has
not been affected.

We are continuing to work closely with our service provider and the
police, who are undertaking a full investigation through the central e-
crime unit at New Scotland Yard. Please continue to visit this site for
regular updates.

The Guardian is a member of the Safer Jobs recruitment grouping
(www.safer-jobs.com) , and you may find their website helpful, in
addition to the official web sites listed below:

www.met.police.uk/fraudalert/
www.stop-idfraud.co.uk
www.banksafeonline.org.uk
www.getsafeonline.org


Security update - 24 October 2009

We can confirm that we are investigating a breach of security to the
guardian jobs site that we were alerted to yesterday. We have been
assured by our provider that the system is now secure and we have
identified and contacted everyone who may have been affected.

We would like to assure you that we are absolutely committed to
protecting the privacy of our users and we are treating this situation
with the utmost seriousness. The matter has been reported to the police
who are now undertaking a full investigation through the central e-crime
unit at New Scotland Yard.

We will update you on this page should further information become
available.

Guardian News and Media Limited"

 

Paste in the URL, let it load and redirect, then paste it in again.

Worked for me, anyway.

 

Yeah that works. I wondered if it redirects if you haven't got a cookie
already installed, but it worked first time on my work PC so wibble.

 

I'm puzzled by that one.