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sulted by the intruders, causing her will be made in due course.”
great distress,” the post reads.

Liu’s case has aroused great con- The Jiangsu provincial government
cern with more than 490 million also posted an announcement to
post views, 194,000 shares and remind internet users to pay atten-
36,000 comments on Weibo as of tion to network security to prevent
March 2023. similar offences from happening
again.
The education bureau of Xinzheng
City, Henan Province, issued a Li Ying, having taught for 15 years
statement announcing Liu’s death as a junior high school chemistry
on their official website on the teacher in Jilin province, feels dis-
DingDing, where the case same day the Weibo post was tressed about the news.
happened, is an online
teaching software with a published, stating “What Liu en-
similar function like Zoom. countered was cyber violence. The “I want to know how it happened.
public security authorities are in- It is difficult to imagine how much
my teacher until the class was fi- vestigating the case and further in- the teacher had suffered. I would
nally suspended,” Liang recalls. formation about the investigation have never thought an online in-
trusion case would cost a life,” says
The history teacher died from a the 39-year-old teacher.
heart attack a few hours after the
online intrusion on the same day. Li’s colleagues are shocked and up-
set about the tragedy.
“Whenever there was an online
intruder, there was no way to con- “
duct normal teaching and the class
had to be suspended. My teacher What happened to
felt very stressed,” Liang says.
Liu could have hap-
“The local police are taking the pened to us. We felt
case very seriously because of its
significant impact, but we do not very worried. As a
know when the guilty ones will be
arrested,” she adds. teacher who has con-
ducted many online
Five days after the tragedy, some-
one who claimed to be Liu’s daugh- courses, I hope this
ter posted on Weibo, a popular
Chinese social media platform, will never happen
saying her mother was in good to any other teacher
health before the incident. Some provincial governments
posted related announcements again,
“In just a few days, she had experi- to the public to remind residents
enced three cyber attacks in a row to pay attention to the online ”
during online classes. She was in- ecosystem to prevent such cases
from happening again.