Hacked in China (r)

[talbrecht@xxxxxxxxxxx]

why is this cluttering up Burmanet? how does this kind of comment
contribute to a better life for the people in Burma?  
   -----Original Message-----
> From:	dawn star [SMTP:dawnstar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent:	Saturday, January 02, 1999 7:31 AM
> To:	burmanet-l@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:	Hacked in China
> 
> 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              they were caught they had withdrawn a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