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Note: Yahoo breach could have compromised 10% of all Yahoo user credentials. Meanwhile, Syrian Electronic Army targets <i>The Financial Times</i>.
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The Syrian Electronic Army: 9 Things We Know Yahoo disclosed Friday that a breach at Yahoo Japan may have exposed 22 million login names to attackers.
"We don't know if the file [containing 22 million user IDs] was leaked or not, but we can't deny the possibility, given the volume of traffic between our server and external terminals," read a statement issued Friday by Yahoo Japan. Yahoo is the country's most-visited website, and is jointly owned by Yahoo and Japanese network operator Softbank.
Yahoo Japan posted a link to a related breach notification on its homepage, and said it was contacting affected users and had strengthened network security in the wake of the attack. Yahoo Japan also recommended all users -- as of last year, the company had about 24 million users -- change their passwords, and added a tool on its homepage that allowed users to check if their ID was at risk from the suspected breach.
Yahoo Japan's users, however, can't change their login IDs -- which sometimes appear publicly; for example, when users post comments on shopping sites -- without losing access to their current account's email and stored data,...