Several scholars, rights activists and journalists working on China and Taiwan issues have reported that their Yahoo e-mail accounts have been hacked into, in the latest internet incident involving China since Google's decision to stop censoring its Chinese site.
A number of Yahoo.com e-mail users on Wednesday said they could not access their accounts during the past week. Andrew Jacobs, a Beijing-based journalist, wrote in the New York Times that his Yahoo Plus account had been set without his knowledge to forward to another, unknown, account.
There have been reports of e-mail hacking and other cyber attacks targeting people who work on issues seen as sensitive by the Chinese government since last year.