Criminal detention! Resigned employees maliciously retaliated, causing Amazon sellers to lose more than 6 million

A former employee took revenge on his former employer, ultimately injuring others by 800 yuan and injuring himself by 1,000 yuan...

In the past two years, cross-border e-commerce, which is in the midst of a wealth-making boom, has repeatedly become popular and has become a topic of conversation after dinner. In the past two days, an incident that happened in the cross-border circle has been hotly discussed again, and the discussion even ranked in the top 20 of Weibo's hot search list. However, this time the hot topic is not a beautiful money-making story, but the "love-hate relationship" between employees and bosses!

It was reported that after two employees resigned from a cross-border e-commerce company, they arbitrarily changed the price of some products sold by their former company to 10% off, turning a $99 product into $9.9. They also changed the company's payment account, ultimately causing the company to lose more than $6 million.

The actions of these two employees easily remind people of a famous phrase - "running away and deleting the database". In real life, although disputes between employees and companies are very common, cases in which employees deliberately cause major losses to companies in this way are not common, and what awaits them will certainly not be a good result.

Now these two employees have been criminally detained by the police. The lawyer said that if nothing unexpected happens, these two employees will not only be sentenced, but will also have to compensate the company for the economic losses caused!

What is certain is that this incident is not the first one in the cross-border circle, nor will it be the last. The frequent occurrence of similar incidents has triggered a series of thoughts: What should companies do to avoid similar incidents from happening again? How can employees and bosses get along with each other in a friendly manner? ... These are all questions that deserve everyone's deep thought!

Two former employees retaliated against their former company by changing the prices of some products to 10% off!

"I found that all my products were taken off the shelves, which is a huge loss for me. Moreover, the products in my store were sold at low prices one after another. That is, my products that were originally priced at US$90 are now sold at US$9.9." Recently, in Xi'an, Shaanxi, Ms. Wu, the head of a cross-border e-commerce company that sells goods on the Amazon platform, said that they opened a store on Amazon's US station. Since January this year, the company has encountered a series of "unexpected disasters" during its operations, such as brand tampering, removal of product descriptions, malicious security complaints, malicious infringement complaints, etc.

"This resulted in many product links in the store being removed from Amazon. At the same time, the millions of products in the Amazon FBA warehouse became "hot potatoes" and could not be sold for the time being." Ms. Wu said that at first, she thought it was a prank by a competitor, but later found out that this was not the case.

Starting from March this year , the other party began to go further and even changed the price of some of the company's products to 10% off, and also modified the bank card of the company's store. "This time, because the company's product links were tampered with, the products were taken off the shelves, including the account being stolen, the overall loss was more than 6 million yuan." Ms. Wu said.

So Ms. Wu chose to call the police.

After investigation, the police learned that the two suspects were previously operation managers of Ms. Wu's company. They were fired for violating regulations and held a grudge. Out of a revengeful mentality, after leaving their jobs, because they had the original data in their hands, they wanted to gain more benefits through this form of embezzlement. They modified the data related to the company's stores and the passwords of the company's stores, including the bank cards used to collect payments, in order to achieve their own illegal profit . Currently, the two suspects have been taken into criminal detention for suspected illegal acquisition of computer information system data.

Lawyer's interpretation: How many years will the employee be sentenced to? How much economic loss does the company need to compensate?

After the incident was exposed, many people were concerned about the fate of these two employees: Will they go to jail? How many years will they be sentenced? Do they need to compensate the cross-border e-commerce company for all the economic losses caused?

With these questions, the editor consulted two lawyers. Lawyer Li said that normally, these two employees should be sentenced and should also compensate the company for the economic losses caused. However, the specific amount of compensation requires the victim company to provide specific evidence of the losses .

Lawyer Huang Jiayu from Guangdong Fazhi Shengbang Law Firm told the editor that the two employees were suspected of illegally controlling computer information systems (the crime of illegally controlling computer information systems refers to the illegal control of computer information systems other than those in the fields of national affairs, national defense construction, and cutting-edge science and technology, and the circumstances are serious).

According to my country's Criminal Law, if anyone violates state regulations and invades a computer information system other than that specified in the preceding paragraph, or adopts other technical means to obtain data stored, processed or transmitted in the computer information system, or exercises illegal control over the computer information system, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention and shall be fined or fined alone if the circumstances are serious; if the circumstances are particularly serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years and shall be fined.

In addition, according to my country's Criminal Procedure Law, if the victim suffers material losses due to the criminal behavior of the defendant, he or she has the right to file a civil lawsuit in conjunction with the criminal proceedings.

Therefore, if these two employees really caused great economic losses to the company, the employees need to compensate for this, and the company can file a criminal civil lawsuit. Of course, the employees can also negotiate with the company on the amount of compensation.

In recent years, the proportion of similar dispute cases has increased year by year. This serves as a warning to the majority of cross-border e-commerce companies. They must do a good job of risk prevention in advance and divide authority. There must be an absolute boundary between the authority of the boss and the authority of the employees. At the same time, they must retain the corresponding logs to facilitate the police to do a restoration investigation after a problem occurs. They must also revoke the authority of employees who have left to avoid the occurrence of such cases.

Attorney Huang Jiayu said in detail that e-commerce companies should strictly grasp the division of authority and sign a written agreement with some employees who have obtained account operation authority, in which the scope of authority and obligations are informed, and employees are especially reminded of the obligation to keep their accounts and passwords confidential. After leaving the company, they are not allowed to use the company information obtained during their tenure to carry out acts that damage the interests of the company. At the same time, they are reminded of the serious legal consequences of such acts. When the relevant employees leave the company, they must remember to retrieve their accounts and passwords, and it is best to further modify their accounts and passwords.

In addition, relevant records and materials should be kept at ordinary times to provide evidence for subsequent accountability and to facilitate public security, procuratorial and judicial organs to verify the facts of the case as soon as possible.

The incident sparked heated discussions on Weibo, with netizens saying: Injuring others 800 and hurting yourself 1000...

After the incident was exposed, it quickly sparked heated discussions and once rushed into the top 20 of Weibo's hot search list. As of press time, the number of readings of this topic on Weibo exceeded 99.35 million, and the number of discussions exceeded 1,000. The editor summarized and found that although netizens had different opinions, they basically could not be separated from the following three views:

1. Employees have weak legal awareness, causing injuries of 800 yuan to others and 1000 yuan to themselves.

A : This is a typical behavior of "seeking benefits for others and bringing imprisonment to oneself". He took revenge out of anger but ended up destroying himself.

B: In the Internet age, everything leaves traces. No matter what the reason for leaving your job, you must not do anything illegal or disorderly. This is the greatest revenge against yourself.

C: If you have a claim, you can go through normal channels and support the business owner in seeking compensation from these two people and their families through legal means.

Many netizens believe that the employee thought he had screwed the company, but in fact he had screwed himself. It is not clear why the employee was fired for violating regulations. If the employee believes that he has suffered injustice during his employment and is dissatisfied with the company's punishment, he can seek help from labor arbitration instead of committing illegal acts to maliciously retaliate against the company and tamper with the company's normal operating data to cause the company to suffer huge losses. This behavior has already constituted a crime. It is really not worth it to ruin one's bright future just to save face.

2. If the company is not properly managed, system permissions should be revoked as soon as possible after employees leave.

D: The company boss is also responsible for being too careless. He should not have the intention to harm others, but he should always be on guard against others. When an employee resigns, all relevant passwords and other information should be modified as soon as possible, especially when the employee resigns with dissatisfaction!

E: From the perspective of risk prevention, the handover work was not done properly when leaving the company. I suspect that this company has no relevant systems and regulations.

F: The boss didn't know how to judge people and used the wrong people. The money lost can only be considered as a lesson learned.

Weibo legal blogger "Shrimp Sesame Roll" said that it is no longer new news that former employees tamper with product pricing to vent their personal anger, especially for companies like the one in this case whose main business is cross-border e-commerce. If they do not pay attention to data security management, it is only a matter of time before they are exploited and suffer heavy losses.

The resigned employees tampered with the password of the company's online store and the bank card used to collect payment, which are the core data of the online store operation. Whether the two resigned employees held high positions, or the company did not manage permissions in a hierarchical manner, granting permissions beyond the scope of what should be granted, or the employees who held the company's core secrets did not promptly revoke data permissions when they resigned, or modify the corresponding account passwords to prevent others from logging in, all of these exposed loopholes in the company's production safety management.

3. Some netizens also raised the topic to a commonplace issue - the "love, hate and vengeance" between bosses and employees.

G: Everything has cause and effect. As an employer, you should also reflect deeply on what kind of resentment would lead to such a result. You must pay attention to it and serve as a warning.

H: This shows that this company often cheats its employees!

I: Employees may be small people, but if the company doesn’t treat them well on a regular basis, they will become resentful and can ruin the account in minutes!

J: I don't know the whole story, so I won't comment. In addition to some "black-hearted" bosses in this world, there are also many workers who don't understand reason, lose sight of the big picture, are self-righteous, and short-sighted!

Many netizens speculated that the two employees had such "stupid" behavior because they were treated unfairly during their employment. Although their actions were not worthy of sympathy, they were enough to make the company reflect on whether it was too harsh on its employees or whether the way it handled the problem could convince its employees.

Of course, many netizens have expressed different views. They believe that under normal circumstances everyone wants to part ways amicably. Behind the conflict between employees and companies, employees are often the main cause of the conflict. Even if the boss treats employees well, it cannot prevent conflicts from occurring. Among the many workers, there are some who do not provide qualified labor services, but hope that the company can provide excess financial returns and constantly challenge the company's bottom line. In summary, whether it is the boss group or the worker group, there are people with evil intentions.

In order to vent personal anger, employees maliciously retaliate against the company.

Regardless of the truth of the matter, the fact that this incident has sparked heated discussions online also exposes the urgent need to resolve the issue of "how bosses and employees can maintain a good relationship". In the past, when talking about labor relations, employees were often regarded as a vulnerable group, but in recent years, the number of cases of bosses "complaining" has also increased year by year. In addition to the above-mentioned "resigned employees changed the price of their former employer's products to 10% off", the editor has found that many similar disputes have occurred in the cross-border circle in recent years.

An employee was fired for personal reasons and had a conflict with a colleague, and then made fun of the company. In 2021, Yien.com reported an article titled "Criminal detention! A former employee in Shenzhen deleted company products and caused a loss of 2 million yuan". It is reported that a certain technology company mainly sells electronic products such as headphones on foreign websites. In January 2021, Mr. Li, the staff member in charge of operating the store, found that the foreign website was maliciously deleted, prices were tampered with, and information such as payment accounts and store passwords were also changed, which caused the company to lose an estimated 2 million yuan.

The police found that the suspect was Tan, an employee who had worked at the company. Tan joined the company in March 2017 and was doing well, but later she had a conflict with her colleagues due to personal reasons. The company had to dismiss her to calm down the conflict. In March 2018, after leaving the company, Tan did not find an ideal job and decided to run her own online store to make a living, but suffered a loss.

Under multiple blows, Tan was depressed. Although he had left his previous company for several years, he still felt resentful towards his former employer. Before he left, the company gave him an internal email account and password to facilitate his work. After leaving, Tan tried to log in to his email at home and found that his email account and password had not been changed, so he kept logged in. From the email, Tan found the IP address used to log in to the company's overseas online store.

Because the company had some loopholes in maintaining the online store system, the IP address and other information had not been modified. Therefore, on January 24, 2021, Tan used his laptop at home to log in to the IP address and directly entered the overseas online store operated by the company. He began to modify the prices of the products in the online store, deleted some products, and changed the store backend login password, and changed the company's payment account to another office account...

After the incident, Tan was taken into criminal custody.

There are also employees who had disputes with the company over salary distribution and left the company with dissatisfaction, also embarking on the path of "malicious revenge against the old employer."

In 2020, after Wang resigned from the company, he had a dispute with the company over salary distribution. The company did not promptly take back his jurisdiction over the store account after he resigned, which gave Wang an opportunity to vent his hatred and revenge. It is reported that Wang not only maliciously tampered with the prices of the products in the four stores operated by the company on the cross-border e-commerce platform, that is, the prices of the products on sale were lowered to 4 yuan and 2 yuan, but also increased the inventory. This move caused a surge in orders for the former company's online store and put the former company in a dilemma.

The former boss of the company said that since they did not have enough inventory to ship the goods, if they shipped all the existing inventory at the price of 4 yuan and 2 yuan, it would cause economic losses of about 7,000 yuan; but if they did not ship the goods, the store's reputation would plummet.

In order to vent his anger, this employee tampered with the prices of goods in the original company's online store, causing damage to the company's interests, and he himself received the corresponding punishment.

In addition to the above examples, there are even more unexpected things happening in real life. Some workers, simply because they have no money, have the idea of ​​"blackmailing the company by using evaluation sheets."

In 2021, after an employee of a cross-border e-commerce company resigned, due to financial constraints and other issues, he came up with a bad idea, intending to let his former company "give away money for nothing". It is reported that during his tenure, he knew that the company had made a lot of evaluation orders, so he sent a blackmail message to the company's Amazon account, claiming that he knew which orders of the company were evaluation orders, and demanded a remittance of more than 10,000 yuan, otherwise he would report to the platform. In this regard, the company's operations were very curious, because these evaluation orders can be regarded as company secrets. Except for the relevant operations personnel, no one else knew about it, and there was no possibility of information leakage. After realizing that something was wrong, the company chose to call the police as soon as possible.

The police found out that the person who asked for money from the company was a former employee who had left the company. He had "evil intentions" because of the financial problem. An insider said that after the incident was exposed, he knelt down to the boss's wife and begged for forgiveness...

The blacklist of cross-border job seekers went viral

There are countless similar cases, such as " When an employee resigned, he deleted the hot sale link " , " I also encountered an employee who was about to resign and asked someone to change the previous free review to a bad review ", " My former colleague deleted the company link when he resigned and then put it up again . I was scared at the time ..."

Employees' malicious retaliation against companies is just the tip of the iceberg of the chaos in labor relations. Last year, a document titled "Blacklist of Cross-border Job Seekers" was exposed by a seller on a forum. The editor found that this blacklist recorded 268 cross-border employees from different positions across the country , and listed their names, provinces, positions, time of being blacklisted, main reasons, and related notes screenshots.

According to the data in the blacklist, the reasons for these people to be blacklisted include " maliciously retaliating against the company after leaving the company " , as well as the following factors:

1. Falsified resumes (accounting for more than 25%) ;

2. The integrity is extremely poor , stealing company data and opening their own store to sell company products;

3. Malicious poaching ;

4. Poor work ability and poor character .

The main sources of information for this "blacklist of cross-border job seekers" are the evaluations of past colleagues and their leaders, the company's background check before joining the company, and the credit evaluation of employees. Since it is from the company's perspective, its authenticity remains to be verified, but once it was leaked, it sparked heated discussions, and also reflected from the side that in labor relations, how companies and employees can get along peacefully and amicably still requires everyone to discuss and work together!

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