Forwarded From: William Knowles <erehwonat_private> BEIJING (AP) [1.8.99] - A 13-year-old computer hacker in China's Inner Mongolia region illegally accessed an information service network using his father's name, state media said Friday. Computer crimes, some involving the Internet, have soared in recent years, with hackers taking advantage of China's fragile security measures to make havoc with computer systems. Nearly 100 cases of computer hacking were uncovered in 1998, an increase of about 30 percent over the previous year, the China Daily reported Friday. Last month, a court sentenced to death two brothers who used a computer network to transfer the equivalent of $31,700 from a bank to their own account, the newspaper said. Because the boy in Inner Mongolia was under age 14, police could not prosecute him and instead ordered his parents to keep a closer eye on him, the Xinhua News Agency said. The teen-ager used his father's name to connect to an information network and set up a page called ``Hacker'' free of charge at a Web site based in the southern city of Guangzhou in early October, Xinhua said. He also manipulated computer codes to take control of managers' accounts in a multimedia telecommunications system in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia's regional capital, Xinhua said. -o- Subscribe: mail majordomoat_private with "subscribe isn". Today's ISN Sponsor: Internet Security Institute [www.isi-sec.com]
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