&quot;The arrests were apparently separate from a mass sweep launched by the Chinese government in July in which authorities as of early September had arrested about 15,000 people for alleged cybercrimes, which included hacking, sending spam text messages and online scams.&quot;<p>What is a few more hackers if they already arrested 15000? It probably ties much more into other legal cooperative matters such as US willingness to send back people the Chinese government wants to face corruption charges in China.