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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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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Yahoo! Japan released a new tool for users of Google Reader, discontinue of which on July 1 was announced on 14th, to migrate their reading RSS feeds to My Yahoo!

The tool also handles iGoogle data, which will cease on November 1, 2013.

via Yahoo! JAPAN PR blog

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Yahoo Japan Corporation [J] has begun to offer “WONDER!,” [J] a SNS specialized in posting images and a place to express Japanese sub-culture such as figures and cosplay.

“WONDER” is a service that first commercialized from the new business proposal system “Softbank Inoventure,” in which Softbank Group widely recruits employee’s ideas and aims to create businesses.  With this SNS you can post up photos or images of your own works such as comics, figurines, plastic models, or cosplay, and open your collection gallery to the public.  Users can also post comments and hit the “LIKE IT!” button for their favorite goods and artworks, and it’s also possible to share on Facebook and Twitter as well as follow specific users.  It’s compatible with both PC and smartphone, and an iPhone release is planned for the near future.  At present, it’s a service for posting pictures only, but in the future it is planned to support video posting as well.  To log in, Yahoo! JAPAN ID, Facebook, and Twitter accounts are supported.

Translation authorized by VSMedia

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Yahoo! Japan and Gree made comprehensive business ties last November.

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