Huawei employees used the company's system bug to access confidential data without permission, and netizens cried when they commented!

On April 12, a topic #Huawei employee sentenced for unauthorized access to confidential documents# rushed to the top of the Weibo hot search list, which triggered a heated discussion among netizens about the incident.

Netizens commented that "the world is sober"

In this case, many netizens expressed their views one after another, including many employees and programmers at the design and technical level in large technology factories.

We saw that some netizens commented under the hot search topic:

"I feel that it is fortunate that the amount of bribe this person received was not too large. If the amount received is too large, it is estimated that Huawei will not issue a letter of understanding, and the sentence will be heavier.

"No matter what industry you are in, I suggest that you pay more attention to the issue of confidentiality. Some ordinary small issues may not be investigated, but it is a bit outrageous to directly disclose the company's secrets to suppliers like this. Is it this person or the company email?"

"To steal the company's confidential data, do you naively think that the company doesn't know? It's really worth the loss!"

"Although Huawei has forgiven it, if it violated the criminal law, it will still be tried according to legal procedures."

"Since he has been transferred from his post, he can just leave... But this employee did not clear the ERP login information, then used a bug to gain unauthorized access, and sent information about Huawei's multiple suppliers to a third party, and was finally sentenced to a sentence. One year in prison."

"Let's not talk about unauthorized access to confidential data, let's just say that it is illegal to sell our company's information to other companies for 16,000 yuan."

"As an employee of Huawei, how much money do you say you earn a year, do you have a difference of 16,000 yuan? I don't understand. It's not a few hundred thousand or a few million, and the profit is 16,000 yuan. It's really a small loss. ."

"Violating the company's confidential data? If it is simply unauthorized access to the company's data, it is a violation of the company's regulations, and at most you will be fired... The point is, you use unauthorized data to conduct illegal transactions, which is intolerable. already."

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Case review: Illegal profit of 16,437.6 yuan, really "more than the gain"

According to China Judgment Documents Network, the case of "Huawei employees using the company's system bug to access confidential data beyond their authority" shows:

In December 2010, after Yi (voice) was transferred from Huawei's Cable Material Control Department, he failed to clear the query authority for cable coding material prices in the ERP account according to Huawei's requirements. Until the end of 2017, Yi violated the regulations many times to obtain price information of cable materials in the ERP system through unauthorized inquiries and login with a colleague's account.

During the period from December 27, 2016 to February 28, 2018, Yi repeatedly sent the purchase price of 1,183 cable coding materials from multiple Huawei suppliers (918 excluding duplicates) through the company's mailbox. Kingsignal Corporation.

During the period from 2012 to June 30, 2017, Yi received Kingsignal's shopping card totaling 7,000 yuan and 5 pairs of basketball shoes (valued at a total of 16,437.6 yuan).

After the incident, Huawei issued a letter of understanding, expressing its understanding of Yi's actions against Huawei.

As a Huawei supplier and a listed company involved, a source from Kingsignal's securities department revealed that it had dealt with the disciplinary violations of the employees involved as early as 2018, and "this is only a personal behavior. "

In this case, the court finally sentenced Yi to one year in prison and fined him 20,000 yuan for the crime of "illegal acquisition of computer information system data".

Huawei: Deal with employee bribery every year

For a long time, the phenomenon of corporate employees taking bribes has always attracted much attention, and it has been repeatedly banned. It is understood that #Huawei employee was sentenced for unauthorized access to confidential documents# The situation of this incident does not seem to be an exception.

According to related reports, Huawei handles many cases of "employee bribery" every year.

As early as at the "Huawei 2021 China Ecological Conference" in May 2021, Xu Zhijun, then the rotating chairman of Huawei, said that "Huawei handles many employee bribery cases every year, and some people are even sentenced to detention or imprisonment." And when the relatives of these employees begged for mercy from the company and hoped that Huawei would forgive them, it was also very embarrassing as the owner of Huawei.

Therefore, Huawei emphasizes to partners in every public occasion that "Huawei should work with partners to create a healthy and honest cooperation environment. At the same time, Huawei is also strengthening internal supervision and improving work processes and mechanisms. Make this sort of thing happen as little as possible.

Ren Zhengfei once said, "The fundamental reason for Huawei's survival is not to be corrupt." Corruption must not be allowed to hinder the company's development, let alone to tolerate corruption because of development. This requires the supervision of everyone in each position.

It is understood that just before the conference last year, Huawei had passed a relevant resolution, strictly requiring all Huawei employees, especially senior managers and retired senior managers, not to take advantage of their current and past positions to help them. relatives and friends become Huawei's partners, agents or suppliers.

Expert advice: establish a strict supervision system as soon as possible

As we all know, in the process of the world moving from the information age to the intelligent age, data is the key "asset" that opens the door to a new era. Especially for a technology company such as Huawei, which is extremely influential in the global field, data is a security red line.

Of course, the occurrence of this case also exposed some problems. Since it involves the crime of infringement of commercial secrets, it has also attracted the attention of many experts and scholars in the legal field. Some experts suggest that stricter supervision and safety systems need to be established as soon as possible to prevent such problems from happening again.

Huawei has always attached great importance to data security. For any qualified tech giant employee, it is imperative to know what content can and cannot be accessed. Otherwise, once you cross the line, you will face serious consequences, and even face "jail".