If you have an account with one of the leading Internet portals in Japan - Yahoo Japan or Goo - then you might be in for some bad news. Last week, the two sites were hacked, with Goo reporting that up to 100,000 accounts (and financial details that went with them) had been affected.
The portal said he noticed several brute force attacks on its systems last Tuesday, with some accounts face 30 connection attempts every second. The company locked 100,000 accounts to prevent non-users from accessing personal information such as credit card and bank details. Goo asked everyone with an account to create a new password more complex, and said it is currently assessing the full extent of damage caused by the attack.
Meanwhile, the same evening, Yahoo Japan - which handles over 55% of research and using the portal in the country - said it had found malware on its servers. The malware has accessed the data of 1.27 million users, but the company says it was able to stop the attack before that sensitive information could be effectively extracted. Yahoo Japan has confirmed that the security breach takes very seriously and works hard to make it more secure site -. How very reassuring
Both Goo and Yahoo Japan insist that the attacks are not related, but with businesses being two of the most popular portals in Japan, it is hard to believe that this was not a coordinated ambush. Goo said he had managed to trace a handful of IP addresses used in the hack, but was not willing to release other details about them. Yahoo Japan, meanwhile, is yet to even begin to speculate about the origins of the malicious program.
Although you should not expect to have to worry about hackers getting into a major portal like Yahoo Japan Goo or by using a VPN, you can be sure that your computer is better protected attacks against undesirable users. A VPN service can give your computer an extra layer of protection against hackers when browsing the Web, which means that even if your favorite website has been compromised, you can be sure that your data are safer.
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