Chinese hackers will do 7 years in prison
Posted: December 24th, 2008 | Tags: Hackers, Security |The government of China has offered the new law, according to which persons plead guilty of illegal access to computer systems, will be punished in the form of imprisonment for a period of seven years.
On Monday in Standing committee of China meeting of national representatives (it is the highest legislative body of China) the second reading of the bill has taken place. As the Chinese mass-media informs, the correction to the operating Criminal code provides almost identical degree of responsibility and similar punishments for cybercriminals and those who provides them with equipment and software.
Correction acceptance will provide law enforcement bodies and judicial authority of China with the first lawful resource of opposition to the wave which has overflowed the country of thefts of the personal data. Now the Criminal code of the Peoples Republic of China provides punishment only for the persons making illegal penetration into the state computer systems. According to official figures, in one only provinces Hunan criminals daily steal passwords to twenty thousand accounts of on-line games, whose common market cost is estimated in 200 thousand yuans (almost $30 thousand). The authorities of the Peoples Republic of China see serious threat of informational safety in these operations and intend to regard them as criminal offences.
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