In a disclosure made by Chinese state media, the country’s biggest training website for hackers has been closed down. According to the media reports in China, it has been observed that the site, Black Hawk Saftey Net used to provide lessons in hacking and download of mali cious software. Three people suspected to running the website has been arrested by authorities.

Hacking has become a very sensitive issue for policy makers in China, who after the threats of search engine giant Google getting out from the country on the matter of his servers attacked from the pirates based at China. However, Chinese government denied of its invol vement in this episode. The hacker training institute in China openly recruits thousand of members online and provides them with lectures on cyber attack lessons and Trojan Software as reported by Chinese Dailies, the China Daily and the Wuhan Evening News as reported.

Trojans provide access to a computer when attacked and used by hackers to illegally get control over a computer. Black Hawk Safety Net recruited more than 12,000 paying subscribers and thus in this way collected more than seven million that equals to one million dollars. And another 170,000 joined the website as a free member. On Google’s argument to revoke censorship, Government officials have defended China’s online censorship and told it is one of the biggest sufferers of cyber attacks. China has 350 million net users and search engine market of an estimated $1bn previous year. In China, 60% net engine market is controlled by Baidu, the local search engine and remaining 40% is with Google.