4 admit hacking games websites

Four employees of a Shanghai-based Internet security company appeared before a Beijing court on Tuesday accused of attacking the website of an online games operator.

At the hearing at Haidian district court, Luo Chun, general manager of the Shanghai Share Security Network Technology Co Ltd, and three of his employees, were said to have launched attacks on several online games operators in Beijing.

They flooded targeted websites with various requests thereby crashing their systems. They then asked the websites to buy their firewall products.