Foreign Journalists in China Suffer Hacked Email Accounts: Yahoo, This Time

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The AP reports that at least three journalists and one analyst working in China, all of them foreign, were greeted with a brusque "We've detected an issue with your account" when trying to log in to their Yahoo email accounts. The puzzled users were told to contact Yahoo, and Yahoo technicians informed one that his account had indeed been hacked before restoring access.

These are just four examples, and it's not clear how related they are, but anecdotal evidence suggests a more widespread...