There are hackers all over the world. They get in to people's accounts and get things from people such as money. A lot of hackers are in foreign countries. The article that I found described how the hackers in foreign countries got away with it. Remember the Love Bug? "ILOVEYOU" was the subject line of an email that filled 45 million in 2000, as the computer virus it carries manically mailed itself around the planet. The Love Bug deleted pictures and music and slowed computers to a crawl as it sent copies of itself to everyone in the victim's contacts file. The hacker got away with his dirty crime, because he was from the Philippines. They have no laws against computer misuse. While the same security problems afflict both developed and developing nations--spam, viruses and botnets-- poorer countries are far more vulnerable because they tend to lack the funds for countermeasures and the technical training to protect themselves effectively. One reason is the connection of internet costs so much more than it does in industrialized nations, leaving little cash for security measures.

A way to cut down on hackers is 1 computer per household. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which aims to reduce the costs of computers and internet access by providing laptops that run on the free, open source Linux operating; this way they can cut down on hackers and traack them down.