A Chinese student penetrated the Shaanxi Provincial Seismic Bureau's web site and planted a false warning on an earth quake expected the following night reports The Australian.
The false warning created panic, especially since it was made shortly after the devastating earth quake hitting China just a few weeks earlier. The faked warning drew 767 page views within 10 minutes, the bureau’s phones became immediately very busy.
As expected in China, authorities were far from forgiving, and the student was jailed for 18 months.
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