Beijing Changping District Court heard a case of a blockchain engineer abusing his power for profit

The Changping District Court of Beijing heard a case of a blockchain engineer abusing his power for profit. When the defendant Zhang was developing a project at the company, he obtained program code and private keys beyond his authority on the grounds of "code learning" and shared them with the technical exchange group, inviting members to crack the code and attack the company's account, successfully stealing 106.15 Ethereum. Subsequently, Zhang transferred funds through "money laundering" and transferred the proceeds back to his personal account. In the end, Zhang was sentenced to 3 years and 6 months in prison for illegally obtaining computer information system data and fined 60,000 yuan, and the illegal income of 38,329.76 yuan was recovered.