The police began probing Black Hawk Safety Net, after they found some of the members of the site had been using the malicious programs provided by the site to commit cybercrimes.. China's criminal law, banned the design and distribution of hacking tools.. Last year, China had revised a law to protect the people from cyber data theft..
Black Hawk Safety Net and similar increasingly popular Web sites in China offer chat forums and hacking training tools like videos to members, some of whom pay fees for extra services... Black Hawk collected 7 million yuan (US$1 million) in user fees paid by a portion of its 2 hundred thousand members..
Google threw global attention on hacking in China last month, when it cited cyber attacks from China as one reason it may stop censoring search results on its China-based search engine... China has denied any government role in the attacks and said the country’s laws ban hacking crimes..
However, there is no word yet as to whether the site or it's members were involved in the attacks on Google accounts and other international entities..
