Following revelations in the Wikileaks documents that Chinese officials may have been behind the hacker attacks on Google a year ago, authorities have now announced a major crackdown on hackers, with 460 arrested so far this year. From the Telegraph:
China’s Foreign ministry declined to comment on the Wikileaks revelations.
The announcement on the arrests of hackers only discussed the domestic Chinese situation and not attacks on international targets.
It said the authorities had arrested 460 hackers, solved 180 cases of computer crimes, and shut down 14 websites providing hacking software or training. It did not name any specific cases.
Earlier this year, however, China said it had shut down a website selling “tools” for hackers, which they said was generating around £650,000 a year in revenues from 12,000 subscribers.
