Chinese authorities bust “hacker school”
According to a new article published in China Daily, authorities have shut down the country’s biggest hacker training site. Three people have been arrested and assets to the value of ¥1.7m (£160,000) have been seized.
The Black Hawk Safety Net site was started in 2005, and had some 12,000 paid members who paid ¥2,000 for training in hacking and other online criminal activities.
Another 170,000 people were registered on the web site, but had not paid a fee and had received only low level hacking tips and tricks.
Chinese authorities also confiscated a number of web servers, five computers and a vehicle.
China’s recently created anti-hacking laws make it illegal to attack software and other computer programs.However China’s reputation has recently been tarnished by allegations that hackers from the region have been involved in cyber attacks on Google, businesses in the UK and other countries.
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