Nations blame China for recent cyber hackings

Chen and his friends run a hacking website in China which reportedly has 10,000 registered users and gets 50,000 hits a day, with the site featuring advice and free software for breaking into computer systems.

Chen even boasts that two of his colleagues were successful in hacking into the Pentagon.

Despite such claims, Chinese officials have dismissed all the allegations as "baseless reports" declining the government's involvement in any cyber warfare towards any country as it did the last couple of times when Chinese hackers were found to be involved in hacking Pentagon's computers and into computer networks of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's chancery and three other ministries.

"The Chinese government has nothing to do with it. The Chinese government discourages such activities against all countries, including India. These reports are baseless. They are not in tune with the growing trust and friendship between India and China," said a senior Chinese embassy official.

"Hacking is a worldwide phenomenon. The Chinese networks have also been victims of hacking," the official added, while recollecting how one of the websites of the Chinese government was found to be hacked by someone from North America last year.

China has also been the target of a big increase in cyber-attacks in recent years and faces more of a threat from hackers than any country in the West.