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Chinese police shut down hacker training business

A 2007 hacker attack on an Internet caf?n Hubei Province in China has led to the discovery and dismantling of an online hacker training camp accused of providing malicious software and lessons in hacker technique to tens of thousands of Chinese users. The site, called Black Hawk Safety Net, has been shut down and three people have been arrested, but as with many stories coming out of the People's Republic these days, it's difficult to tell exactly what's what. Chinese state media reports that Black Hawk collected some $1 million from 12,000 paying subscribers in exchange for lessons in hacking techniques and Trojan software that can be used to illegally hijack computers over the Web. Another 170,000 people had signed up for free memberships to the site at the time of its brush with the law, during which several servers and computers as well as $250,000 in assets were seized. The seizure comes on the heels of a high-profile dust-up between China and Google, in which Google and the U.S. governmen

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