Engineer used his position to attack company accounts for 106.15 Ethereum profits, sentenced to 3 years and 6 months in prison

According to the Worker's Daily, the Changping District People's Court in Beijing recently released a case in which employees used their positions to obtain virtual currency for profit, which constituted the crime of illegally obtaining computer information system data. Zhang asked colleagues for program codes and private keys beyond his work authority on the grounds of "code learning" in an internet company and invited members of the "technical exchange group" to crack the code and attack the company account to obtain 106.15 Ethereum. After that, the obtained Ethereum was converted into other forms of currency, and then transferred back to his own account through multiple accounts. Finally, the court sentenced the defendant Zhang to three years and six months in prison for illegally obtaining computer information system data.