Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
Chinese police have arrested more than 15,000 people to date for cyber crimes, including hacking and fraud, while activists said the crackdown is also linked to the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s ongoing war on online public opinion. “More than 15,000 criminal suspects were detained in investigations of more than 7,400 Internet crimes by police departments and agencies,” the country’s ministry of public security said in a statement on its website. Those detained were suspected of “harming national security online” or “infringing the legitimate rights and interests of the general public,” it said. It listed hacking attacks, cyber fraud and the promotion of online gambling among the crimes under investigation. In a case in the eastern province of Jiangsu, seven people were arrested after hackers took control of a company website, filling the pages with online gambling content, the ministry said. The suspects were later found to have hacked into more than 2,000 websites. But China is also deleting content that the government deems offensive and “harmful,” including pornography and gambling, but also posts by citizens about current events that are considered “rumor-mongering” because they offer an alternative view of events. Pan Lu, deputy director of the nascent China Human Rights […]
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