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Washington (CNN) -- Police in China shut down what officials think was the largest training Web site for computer hackers, local media said.
The Black Hawk Safety Net offered lessons on cyber attacks and sold Trojan software, which allows outside access to a computer when remotely installed, media reports said.
Police arrested three people who ran the Web site and charged 100 to 200 yuan ($14 to $29) for lessons, the China Daily newspaper said.
Established in 2005, the site had recruited more than 12,000 paid and 170,000 free members and collected more than 7 million yuan ($1.02 million) in membership fees, the reports said.
Authorities were tipped off to its existence while investigating a cyber attack in 2007. Some suspects arrested in that case were members of Black Hawk.
The suspects in the Black Hawk case were arrested under a law revised last year in response to cyber crimes.
China says hackers caused 7.6 billion yuan ($1.02 billion) in losses in the country last year.
Last month, online search giant Google threatened to pull out of China, saying Chinese hackers had penetrated some of its services in a politically motivated attempt at intelligence gathering.
China's information information technology ministry called the accusations of government involvement "groundless."
The Chinese government has said that the Google case is a business dispute and should not affect relations between Beijing and Washington.
Last month, foreign correspondents in at least two Chinese bureaus of news organizations had their Google e-mail accounts attacked, with e-mails forwarded to a mysterious address, according to the Foreign Correspondents' Club of China.[/QUOTE]
Source: [url]http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/02/08/china.hackers/index.html[/url]
I see Doctor Hax has been busy.
Great, sadly, soon there will be more.
Why artistic?
This is what happens when you form a leet hacker and a computer :downs:
What happened to half the guys in the Tech Support forum???
Why are they stupid enough to announce it and even tell numbers?
That only encourages others.
Chances are this news is only one of those "look we did something" news and nothing actually happened.
I'm sure a smart guy is in charge of investigation and he kicking some nuts for someone spilling stupid inforamtion all over the media, making the "hackers get trained easily" proble even worse.
On top of that it's just to convenient to see a news like this just after the whole "china has hackers" thing is fresh in the news again.
More like the chinese government bought them to train the government hackers.
Come on, China, stop pretending you aren't the biggest recruiter of hackers on the planet.
Damn
One less creepy disturbing thing from China
I kinda expected them to have shut down the Chinese youtube, or google, or something else stupid like that.
Lets see them hack there way out of this situation.
Should´ve hacked the street signs and cause havoc!
hurr
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