A university student in China has been jailed for 18 months for hacking into a government website and posting a fake earthquake alert, state media reported.<\/p>\n
The computer science student, surnamed Jia, was convicted by a court in northern China’s Shaanxi province last week for deliberately spreading false information, the Xian Evening News said.<\/p>\n
Jia hacked into the Shaanxi Provincial Seismic Bureau’s website on May 29 and posted a warning that a strong earthquake would hit the province that night, according to the weekend report.<\/p>\n
His report immediately caused panic as people were still nervous following the 8.0-magnitude earthquake that rocked China’s southwest on May 12 and left nearly 88,000 people dead or missing.<\/p>\n
Most of those victims were in Sichuan province, but there were some deaths in neighbouring Shaanxi.<\/p>\n
Jia’s posting had 767 clicks within 10 minutes after its release and the seismic bureau received constant call-in inquiries, the report said.<\/p>\n
It added he posted the false alert as a joke and deleted it after realising the severity of the matter.<\/p>\n
Aftershocks and earthquakes have been frequent in China since the May tremor.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, a 6.1-magnitude earthquake hit the southwest again and killed at least 32 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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