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Beijing, China (AHN) - China's government has shut down what is being called the world's largest training center for computer hackers.

A hacker training center that provided thousands of people with malicious software and lessons on how to launch cyber attacks was shut down by government officials, Chinese state media reported Monday.

Police in Hubei province reportedly arrested three people who ran an online hacker site called the Black Hawk Safety Net. The organization allegedly recruited thousands of members online and it provided them with Web site hacking techniques and malicious software, such as Trojan software. Police also seized computers and servers and froze assets. In addition, the Web sites have been taken down.

The malicious software could be used to illegally gain control of a computer and control it from the outside.

Black Hawk Safety Net owners reportedly collected more than $1 million from hackers it recruited online. The organization recruited more than 12,000 paying members and had another 170,000 people who had signed up for free memberships.

The crackdown on the computer hacker site comes as search giant Google is considering pulling out of China after its email accounts were hacked into last month. Those hacking incidents also affected at least 20 other companies.

China is increasingly viewed as a center for industrial espionage and Internet crime. In addition, within the past year the governments of several countries have complained that their computers have been hacked into and some of those attacks have been traced back to China, according to reports.

 

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