China makes first computer hacker arrest

Sep 14

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SHANGHAI (Reuters) [9.14.98] China has arrested its first suspected computer hacker under a new criminal law, a Shanghai newspaper said on Monday.

A 22-year-old university mathematics student who was identified only by his surname Yang was arrested recently after he broke into a Shanghai computer network, the Liberation Daily said.

“The computer hacker had the ability to delete, modify, insert or disrupt the information or even paralyse the network,” the newspaper said without naming the network.

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