Scott advises applicants to check out Dockwalk -- a sailing crew community site, where people can share their experiences and draw on collective knowledge to establish if a captain is legitimate.
In an email, Dr. Glassman said he had no knowledge of it but added that the Medtronic royalties were "for legitimate contributions to the development of" a Medtronic device used to treat scoliosis and other conditions.
"To the best of our knowledge, this is not a hack of Monster's security, rather, legitimate customer credentials are being used to log in to the database, " said Patrick Manzo, vice president of compliance and fraud prevention at Monster.