Hackers who steal data or manipulate large number of computers may be jailed for up to seven years, according to a proposed amendment to the Chinese Criminal Law.
Hackers who steal data or manipulate large number of computers may be jailed for up to seven years, according to a proposed amendment to the Chinese Criminal Law.
The penalties will also be applicable to those who offer software or tools for hacking to any intruder.
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However, the amended law will be the first legal tool to curb increasing data theft from civil-use computers in China.
According to Zhou Guangquan, a member of the NPC's law committee and a professor in criminal law at Tsinghua University, the proposed penalties also apply to Chinese hackers, who steal information from foreign computers.
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"Even if the crime has nothing to do with China, but the criminal is a Chinese citizen, it also falls under the law's jurisdiction," Zhou said.
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"The ministry said many unscrupulous people have been found hacking computers to steal account numbers and passwords, or to remotely control them," he said.
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