ChainCatcher news, according to Worker’s Daily, the People's Court of Changping District, Beijing recently released a case where an employee used their position to obtain virtual currency for profit, constituting the crime of illegally obtaining data from a computer information system. Zhang, a blockchain engineer at a certain network company, learned that there was a large amount of Ethereum in the account while participating in project development, and planned to attack the company account to obtain it.
He took advantage of his job to solicit program codes and private keys from colleagues that exceeded his permissions, and shared them in a 'technical exchange group', inviting group members to crack and attack the company account, successfully obtaining 106.15 Ethereum and illegally profiting 38,329.76 yuan.
The court held that Zhang violated regulations by illegally obtaining Ethereum information from the company's computer system and profiting from trading, constituting the crime of illegally obtaining data from a computer information system. Although there were management loopholes in the company, this did not serve as a valid excuse for Zhang's crime. Ultimately, Zhang was sentenced to 3 years and 6 months in prison, fined 60,000 yuan, and required to return illegal gains of 38,329.76 yuan. The second instance verdict rejected the appeal and upheld the original judgment.
