The company said it was targeted last month by a major Internet attack launched from China.

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The volume of traffic between Yahoo's back end admin system and the wider internet during the attack strongly suggested that a file of 22 million IDs had been stolen.

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But what happens to the Internet when such an attack is launched?

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