The series of attacks over foreign journalist mail accounts are not getting abated or being stop

in China. In a recent incident The Yahoo e-mail accounts of foreign journalists located in China and Taiwan have been hacked, as according to a press notice by Beijing-based press association.

The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (FCCC) has rectified eight cases of Yahoo e-mail attacks in recent period. Yahoo condemned these cyber attacks on the other hand FCCC accused Yahoo of not informing its users about the situation. “Yahoo has not answered the FCCC’s questions about the attacks, nor has it told individual mail users how the accounts were accessed,” a spokesman told the media.

However, Yahoo responded to the incident by terming and stating commitment towards protecting user security and privacy. Clifford Coonan, a reporter for the Irish Times, informed he received an error message when the tried to log into his Yahoo account this week. “I don’t know who’s doing it, what happened. They (Yahoo) haven’t given any information, but it seems to be happening to journalists and academics in China, so that’s why it’s a little suspicious,” he told.

Since the high profile cyber attacks against the Gmail account of Chinese human right activist since January, China’s cyber space is much in news and finally Google switched its search operations from main land China and is operating from Hong Kong. The Chinese government reacted with resentment on this development terming it to be erratic and futile yet the source code of the attack originated from China. China practice very high level of control over online content.