Today, Yahoo! Japan official blog published the follow-up announcement [J] of the possible 22 million account name leaks on 17th.

According to it, further investigation reached the conclusion that more data beyond account name could be brought out for 1.486 million accounts. The data are non-decrypt-able password (password hash, I guess) and information used when you reset password.

To protect those users account, Yahoo! Japan temporarily turned off the password reset feature, which asks user’s secret questions, 19 p.m. tonight. The relevant users will get their password and secret questions reset in early morning 24th.

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Asahi Digital published an interview of new Mixi president Yusuke Asakura [J], titled “Mixi expand to free call app business beyond social network” today.

Mixi quickly released a short release that it is not a fact [J].

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Yahoo! Japan announced on May 17th night [J] that they found that their account management server got raided, a file having 22 million of their user account names left on the server.

The announcement said that they can not deny the possibility of the file transferred to outside of the company’s network. However, as the file did not include any other information such like password, secret questions for password recovery, etc., they wrote that those public account name disclosed will not cause serious trouble such like others log in your account.

[Update] Reuters report it.

[Update 2013-05-20] PC Advisor and Information Week followed. These do not tell that Yahoo! Japan’s ID is totally irrelevant with U.S. Yahoo ID. (i.e. you can not log in U.S. Yahoo with Yahoo! Japan’s ID, and vise versa.)

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3 days ago we reported that Mixi is to have a young new president. Now Facebook Japan announced that a new president, according to Markezine [J]. Same as Mixi, this is the first time of presidency change.

Atsuhi Iwashita, who is going to take the president seat on May 20, have served as CEO for Interbarnd’s Japan arm since 2010. Before that, he worked for McDonald Japan as a Chief Marketing Officer.

Facebook once passed Mixi by number of active users, but recently the number dropped down from its peak, at least on the number Facebook itself shows on its advertisement tool. Mixi shows gradual decrease but not such big so at this point which social network is bigger in Japan depends on which research you rely on.

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ITMedia reports that the notorious website of Aiseikai Hospital is planned to be closed within 2 months, a son of the hospital head revealed on his Twitter account @miya_blu_swing. The tweet [J] has been retweeted more than 2,000 times.

The screenshot above can not show you the vividness of the site. You should check it before closed. It is not a joke site or for enlightenment, a real hospital site.

The site has been there around the end of last century, frequently referred as a very bad example of web design in Japanese. Here is a version in 2000 thanks for the Internet Archive and @No_1026 [J]

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