hong kong and a buddhist monk from tibet two places where beijing has faced political unrestone of the hackers jiang lizhi who worked under the alias blackfox had previously worked for a hacking group that served government agencies and boasted of close connections with chinas ministry of state securitybut many of the groups activities appear to be motivated by financial gain and personal interest with one hacker laughing in chat messages about massblackmailing wealthy victims and the us indictments did not identify a strong official connectionthe five chinese hackers remain at large but the two businessmen were arrested in malaysia on monday after a sweeping operation by the fbi and private companies including microsoft to block the hackers from using their online accountsthe united states is seeking their extraditionnone of the men charged are known to have lived in the us where some of their targets were locatedthey picked targets outside malaysia and china because they believed law enforcement would not be able to track them down across borders the court documents said