China arrests over accusation Cybercrime 15000 People

The Chinese government reported the arrest of about 15,000 people for suspected involvement in the case of cybercrime. They are captured in the program "Operation Clean Internet" which will last for 6 months.

Ministry of Public Security or the Ministry of State Security Preformance indeed hold a clean-up operation of the Internet since last July. The goal is to cut off communications networks cybercriminals while building a healthy internet environment. Until now, authorities are already investigating the 7400 case with the majority of them are cases of hacking and theft of financial data.

According to the official account, there are 10 major cases being demolished including cyber attacks against a telecommunications company. There is also the theft of financial information via spam, dropping campaign groups and online investment scams.

For information, the security of the Internet in China is the most stringent in the world. News sites and social media should not be foreign-owned there is no exception aired on Google (GOOG) and Facebook (FB). Censorship policy called 'Great Firewall' is eyeing western technology companies, which could potentially inject a bad influence to the citizens.

Not only that, the government even require bloggers to register themselves with the government. All users are also asked to use the original name in any activity on the web. The United States had accused China as a hotbed of international hackers, but this allegation denied by the Beijing. China claims that the hacker problem faced by all countries, including their own.