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Yahoo Said to Be Target of Hacker Attacks From China
Brian Womack and Ari Levy
Bloomberg
Thursday, January 14th, 2010
Yahoo! Inc., owner of the No. 2 search engine
in the U.S., was targeted by a Chinese attack similar to the
one that affected Google Inc., according to a person familiar
with the matter.
Google said this week that at least 20 other companies were
targeted in a series of “highly sophisticated” attacks
in December. Yahoo was one of those companies, said the person,
who declined to be identified because the information isn’t
public.
Google said this week that it’s notifying the other companies,
which spanned such industries as finance, technology, media
and chemicals. Google declined to identify them. The Chinese
attacks also included hackers going after human-rights activists
via their Gmail e-mail accounts, Google said.
The popularity of Yahoo’s e-mail service could have made
it a target, said Danny Sullivan, editor-in-chief of the Search
Engine Land site in Redding, Connecticut. “People are
looking for places to communicate, and communicate without the
Chinese authorities restricting them.”
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