A Chinese court has upheld the country’s, and possibly the world’s, first death sentence for computer hacking. The Yangzhou Intermediate People’s Court rejected the appeal of Hao Jingwen, upholding a death sentence imposed last year. Hao and his brother Hao Jinglong allegedly hacked into the computer network of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and shifted 720,000 yuan ($87,000) into accounts they had opened under false names. Hao Jinglong, who was also originally sentenced to death, received a suspended death sentence in return for testifying against his brother.
