John W. wrote:
> mr.sumo.snr. wrote:
> 
>>Someone please tell me what's up at www.kakaku.com
>>
>>If I ask the missus to explain she'll just automatically assume I'm
>>buying shit again...
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/a664e
> 
>>From Information Week online.
> 
> "A hacker attack that hit a Japanese price comparison site forced it to
> temporarily shut down operations, Kakaku.com said this week. The
> closure will cost it approximately 40 million yen ($372,000) in lost
> revenues, the company said in a news conference Wednesday. "

Just 40M?  Maybe not.  I spoke their customer service folks yesterday on 
another matter re: their forex site and slipped in a casual comment that 
I hadn't been able to access the top page for one full week.  The 
response was that they were still investigating the cause of the 
break-in and that they still hadn't found out how the hacker got in.  I 
asked when they'd be back up and running and the total response was 
"Saaaaaa ....."

CL