CoinVoice has recently learned from the Worker’s Daily that the People's Court of Changping District, Beijing, recently published a case where an employee used his position to obtain virtual currency for profit, constituting the crime of illegally obtaining data from a computer information system. Zhang is a blockchain engineer at a certain network company. During project development, he learned that there was a large amount of Ethereum in the account and planned to attack the company's account to obtain it.
He took advantage of his job to request program code and private keys beyond his authority from colleagues, and shared it in a certain 'technical exchange group', inviting group members to crack and attack the company's account, successfully obtaining 106.15 Ethereum and illegally profiting 38,329.76 yuan.
The court found 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 was not a justification for Zhang's crime. Ultimately, Zhang was sentenced to 3 years and 6 months in prison, fined 60,000 yuan, and ordered to return illegal gains of 38,329.76 yuan. The second-instance ruling dismissed the appeal and upheld the original judgment. [Original link]
