Two major search engines of Japan, Goo and Yahoo japan is reportedly suffered security breach earlier this week.
Goo which is owned by network operator NTT confirmed that hackers accessed the users' account which has financial details such as credit card, bank information, email id and personal info. Goo has locked 100k user accounts to prevent unauthorized logins.
According to Pc Advisor report, The company detected a series of brute-force attacks from certain IP addresses , with some accounts hit by over 30 login attempts per second.
Yahoo Japan on the other hand discovered a malicious programs on company servers that harvested data of 1.27 million users. However, the company managed to stop the program before it leak any of the information.
