As mentioned earlier, China is the home of many telecommunication industry giants, therefore

there are many people who advanced in the usage of online technology. In the other hand, several

persons miss used their knowledge that leads to one of the biggest cybercrime in the past few years, in

2009 Chinese hackers manage to break into Google corporate database. But until 2013 the United

States officials said that the hackers manage to accessed Google sensitive database (Nakashima,

2013). The Database is believed to consist of information about United States surveillance targets,

said by current and former government officials (Nakashima, 2013). The hackers appeared to have

been aimed at dig into the identities of Chinese intelligence operatives in the United States, who may

have been under surveillance by American law enforcement agencies (Nakashima, 2013). It is not

exact how deep the hackers able to discover, but it is confirmed that the databased they hacked into

contain information about court orders authorizing surveillance (Nakashima, 2013). This hacking

definitely one of the biggest cybercrime that ever occurs until this period of time, the case involves

major billion dollars company, and arguably two of the most powerful countries in the entire world,

and sensitive information about one nation’s law information.

Next case cyber scam or online fraud, this form of cybercrime is widely spread to the entire

world, as this one seems to be easier crime to pull off. As in China this form of cybercrime is the most

well-known out of the other in the past few years (Cheng, 2017). As popular as this cybercrime is, it

cost the victim in total of RMB 195 million in 2016, with 20,623 reports (Cheng, 2017). The frauds

that are happen in China are common issues, these online frauds happened frequently due to the

frequent usage of mobile device or online devices (Cheng, 2017). The motive of the frauds are vary

first, through SIM card information that done by text messages which then for the victim to conduct

fraudulent transactions (Cheng, 2017). Second, online beauty or popularity contests in this case the

victim will pay for numbers of vote to win that will never happens (Cheng, 2017). Third, part-time

employment that due by a fraud company that made to be a doppelganger of a legitimate company,

which then will have requirement for the victims or the applicants to purchase certain amount of item

on the fake site to gain the job that never exists (Cheng, 2017). Fourth, Tickets for entertainment and
other events, that being sold by fraudulent ticketing site that also look similar to the legitimate one

(Cheng, 2017).

Despite the cybercrime in Chine getting bigger, its citizen remains unaware of how fatal

cybercrime could be (Stilgherian, 2017). Most Chinese claimed that cybercrime, especially hacking is

not considered as a serious crime, instead as jokes or to test out their computing or coding skills

(Stilgherian, 2017). They still believe that stealing someone’s social media account is a fun thing to

do, and for those who able to hack particular social media account are admired, and it also happens

for document stealing and fraud (Stilgherian, 2017).. In the governmental side, the law regarding

cybercrime is exist, although its punishments were relatively lenient, although the government started

to step up their games, as in 2015 they started to shuts down impersonator accounts, advertisement,

and pornography (Stilgherian, 2017).