China cybercrime cooperation stalls after US hacking charges

Fledging cooperation between the United States and China on fighting cybercrime has ground to a halt since the recent US indictment of Chinese military officials on hacking charges, a senior US security official said. At the same time, there has been no decline in Chinese hackers' efforts to break into US networks, the official said. US and Chinese officials had started working together to combat certain types of online crime, including money laundering, child pornography and drug trafficking, the US official said. But that cooperation has stopped.