China: 15,000 detained for Internet crimes
By Matt Belenky on Aug 19, 2015 11:23 am
[JURIST] Chinese police announced Tuesday
that they have arrested approximately 15,000 people in connection with
alleged cyber crimes. Over 7,400 cyber crime related cases have been
investigated across the country and they include online fraud, illegal
sale of personal data, and hacking. The arrests [Reuters report] follow a
special six-month operation to aggressively eliminate threats to the
internet which began in July. The Ministry of Public Security [official
backgrounder] has claimed that the operation has caught suspects who
hacked into... +read more
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