Hacked in China

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does crime pay, in china? give these guys a break, won't cha? if these
guys were so smart, why did they get caught? in the us they would be
working for the cia by now, or merrill lynch...at six figure dollar
incomes.

December 29, 1998 
China sentences bank hackers to death concerned about the effect

A Chinese court has sentenced two          [Image]
      [Image]brothers to death for using a computer to  
hack their way into a bank's system and
electronically steal 720,000 yuan
($86,900).                                
The official Wenhui Daily said the trial  
had been the country's first case of      
theft by remote means.                     

An intermediate court judge in the
eastern city of Yangzhou said that the
sentence reflected the "tough stance" 
  that the country had to take against an
expected wave of high-tech crime.          
Hao Jingrong, an employee at an            [Image]
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China
             branch in Zhenjiang, secretly connected a [Image]
             home-made modem to the bank's computer in [Image]
             September.                                [Image]
      
       His twin brother, Hao Jingwen, then used   [Image]
             a personal computer set up in a specially 
             rented apartment in Yangzhou to dial into  
             the bank system and transfer the funds.   

             The funds were then deposited in 16                   
accounts that the brothers had opened      
             under false names.                        

             The report did not clarify how the         
             authorities traced them but by the time    
             they were caught they had withdrawn a
             total of 260,000 yuan.               

             The sentence also includes a fine of      
             40,000 yuan. 

             In November China announced it was        
             stepping up measures to deal with         
             computer hackers after a spate of          
             incidents, including the hacking of a      
             government human rights Website.           
                                                       
bbc