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CHINA TURNED DOWN TAIWAN REQUEST ON JOINT CRACKDOWN ON HACKERS

Central News Agency

2005-07-23 20:27:09

    Taipei, July 23 (CNA) Despite Taiwan's keen hope that cross-Taiwan Strait cooperation will stop Internet crime, China has again rejected Taiwan's proposal recently in a working meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum, a spokesman for the Ministry of Justice said Saturday.

    According to the ministry official, an officer of the Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) , who took part in the APEC Telecommunication and Information Working Group meeting held late last month in Seoul, took the initiative to ask Chinese delegates for their cooperation on the issue. But the Chinese side cold-shouldered his offer, underscoring China's full disregard to help Taiwan wipe out crimes by hackers on the Internet, the official said.

    Crimes arising from computer games have increasingly become the playground of organized crime syndicates, which take advantage of legal operations between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, the official said, adding that Taiwan's police authorities have found that China-based hackers, with funding from Taiwan, have systematically intruded into Taiwan's computer gamers.

    Most of the many computer hacking on Taiwan computer game players was found to have originated from China, with hackers' IP addresses being located there, the official noted, adding that China now is also the major source of Internet crimes in Taiwan following repeated business fraud, money laundering and organized violence.

    Chinese hackers have been launching massive attacks against Taiwan-based Web sites since August 2002, with mainframes at 88 Web sites run by Taiwan's civilian and government authorities being damaged since then, according to the CIB statistics.

    Over the past two years, intrusions made by Chinese hackers have showed no signs of abating, ranging from stealing business secrets to identity data theft, the official pointed out. But he added that Taiwan police usually have to sit idly by if the IP addresses of the hackers are from China.

(By Flor Wang)

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