Yahoo! Japan May Have Had 22 Million User IDs Stolen 28
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.
Re:Yahoo has 22 million .jp users? (Score:4, Interesting)
Also, Google Japan is abysmal. You can set Google's language settings to "Japanese only", but you enter your search term in kanji, you inevitably end up getting back mostly Chinese hits. You have to add a hiragana character (I usually use hiragana "no") to your search term to get back Japanese hits.
Yahoo (back when they had their own independent search engine in Japan...they later switched to Bing and now I they're sadly using Google), Bing and others do not have this same issue nearly as badly as Google.
Plus Yahoo Japan actually has a pretty nice start page with access to dictionaries, etc.