Info Edge's recruitment business Naukri.com has sent out emails to users asking them to reset their passwords and create a new one, noting that it has been experiencing security attacks on its site. (A copy of the email below). On being contacted by Medianama to check for any possible security breach at Naukri, Info Edge CEO Hitesh Oberoi mentioned that they are still investigating the issue and its possible that some user passwords may have been compromised due to security attacks but he cannot confirm it as yet. Update: Naukri has informed that the passwords of some jobseekers might have been stolen. The employer side of the site was not affected and no payment data has been stolen since the site doesn't store any payment details. The company also noted that it is still investigating the issue and have recently increased its security infrastructure, operational controls and vigilance. Oberoi said that they have sent out these email to select users whose details may have been compromised during these attacks and also just to be "extra careful" in face of the massive vulnerability discovered in the web encryption software OpenSSL earlier this month, known as the Heartbleed bug. This bug has affected majority of the online service providers including Yahoo, Google, Dropbox and Instagram among others, however most of them seems to have now patched this bug by re-issuing the security certifications. He noted that there has been several attempts to breach Naukri's security earlier, which includes distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and various…
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