Recruitment site failed to protect data of clients

THE Data Protection Commissioner yesterday ruled that recruitment website Jobs.ie did not have sufficient security to protect the personal information of its clients and held on to private information for longer than was necessary.

Commissioner Billy Hawkes was reporting on his investigation into an incident on March 27 when hackers entered the website and downloaded the curriculum vitaes of site users looking for a job.

The investigation found that Jobs.ie failed to meet its obligations under three pieces of data protection legislation.