Chinese quake hacker rumbled

**Glaswegian** · 06-18-2008, 01:48 PM

A 19-year old Chinese man is in police custody after allegedly hacking into a provincial seismological bureau's website to place a false earthquake warning, state media have reported.

The teenager, identified only by his surname Chen, altered the website of the Guangxi Seismological Bureau to warn residents in southwestern China to prepare for an impending earthquake expected to measure 9.0 on the Richter scale, according to a report on China Central Television's website.

Such a posting could have caused a panic. On May 12 an earthquake measuring 7.8 struck China's Sichuan province, killing over 70,000 people and leaving millions homeless. Following the quake, many people have fallen prey to rumours that earthquakes can now be predicted in a manner similar to weather forecasts, although there was no warning of the Sichuan quake.

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