Chinese authorities are said to have closed down a major hacking operation
Chinese hacker school shut down
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08 Feb 2010, Dave Neal , V3
A report in the China Daily newspaper claims that the country's biggest hacker training site has been shut down by the authorities.
The paper said that three people have been arrested, and that assets to the value of ¥1.7m (£160,000) have been seized, suggesting that the site was big business.
The Black Hawk Safety Net site was set up in 2005, and had some 12,000 members, all of whom may have paid up to ¥2,000 (£190) for training in hacking and other online criminal activities.
A further 170,000 people were registered on the site, but had not paid a fee and had received only low level hacking tips and tricks, according to the report.
The authorities seized a number of web servers, five computers and a car.
China's recently created anti-hacking laws make it illegal to attack software and other computer programs.
However the country's reputation has recently been tarnished by allegations that hackers from the region have been involved in cyber attacks on Google and UK businesses.
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Do you agree?
Please lets be serious
You all don't really believe this was for the good of the online community right? These are government sanctioned entities and they are simply going through the motions. They have a national interest in hacking anything and everything, its a cultural thing for them. Look at all the piracy that takes place, then you watch them advance in technology. Sad fact is that Corporate America and its excessive greed created this problem. We gave them the tools and know how, all in the name of more profit for share holders and bigger bonus for the CEO's. Now everything we buy is Chinese and there is no end in sight. We did it to ourselves becuase of greed and the rest of the world followed us, now we are all paying the price. I was born poor and likely will die poor, so have fun in joining me in the so called "Middle Class" haha, what a joke.
Posted by JD, 08 Feb 2010