Chinese officials have announced this week the bust of a large hacking ring that was allegedly the nation's largest distributor of hacking tools.
The Black Hawk Safety Net, which used the site 3800cc.com as a front, allegedly made $1 million in income in 2009 from 12,000 subscribers.
Three admins were arrested as part of the raid. Strangely, the arrests are said to have taken place ... [ read the full article ]
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Originally posted by llongtheD: Hey, maybe China can use these guys as a scapegoat for the Google hack?
I would not be suprised if the Chinese government forced them to do the job...they were arrested around the right time.
Agreed, multiple reasons why China would waite three months to announce they arrested a hacker "ring", first and foremost it was their ring. They train them for "cyber terrorism" (or the hackers train the government) and they probably pulled profit on what the hackers were doing and still are pulling profits. I am pretty sure the Chinese government makes big bucks from the DVD counterfeiting trade over there. But hey just opinion.
It's what the chinese do best and what they seem to spend their lives doing
- hacking
- lying
- counterfeiting
- censoring
- copying
- stealing
- cheating
- trafficking
In our societies it's a big problem - over there it seems to be a compulsory part of life.
