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Yahoo! Japan May Have Had 22 Million User IDs Stolen

Posted by timothy on from the they-just-walked-off-quietly-to-think dept.

hypnosec writes with report of the possible theft of up to 22 million user IDs revealed by Yahoo! Japan. That scale is massive, but, he writes, "According to Yahoo, the information that was stolen didn't have passwords or any other information that would allow unauthorized users to carry out user identity verification." A story at the Japan Times adds a bit more detail.

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  1. Re:Yahoo has 22 million .jp users? by davester666 · · Score: 3, Funny

    No, they just store the credentials of all their users around the world in Japan.

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  2. Re:And? by Threni · · Score: 4, Funny

    > So 20 million Yahoo user names are revealed. Why is that interesting at all?

    This is almost as bad as the pin number leak the other week:

    http://pastebin.com/2qbRKh3R

    I've already changed my pin because of this; I guess a lot of Yahoo users will be changing their user names now.