Fined 1.75 million yuan! An employee of a cross-border company leaked information, causing the company to lose about 4 million yuan in profits

There are constant conflicts and disputes between employees and bosses!

The relationship between employees and bosses has always been a hot topic in the workplace, and there are countless topics of conversation caused by disputes over interests between bosses and employees.

Recently, there was news that an employee of a cross-border e-commerce company was fined 1.75 million yuan for multiple "crimes" including stealing the company's commercial secrets , which caused the company to lose about 4 million yuan in profits!

Too greedy, an employee of a cross-border company in Shenzhen caused the company to lose about 4 million yuan in profits

Yienjun learned from the Shenzhen Municipal Administration for Market Regulation that Wu was the person in charge of home appliances products of a cross-border e-commerce company (hereinafter referred to as Company A), and had access to Company A's supply intelligence, sales strategies, pricing policies, as well as undisclosed financial information, warehousing and logistics information and other information.

During his tenure, Wu disclosed Company A's operating information to his sister Wu Mouling on many occasions, and contacted a furniture company, a supplier of Company A, to set up a cross-border e-commerce sales company specifically for his sister.

In addition to working with his relatives to sell the same products as Company A , Wu also "communicated" with Company A 's competitor ( Company B) in order to make more money .

It is understood that Wu not only invested in Company B, a competing company of Company A, but also directly participated in the operation of Company B, using the sales information he had in Company A to help Company B "take shortcuts." First, he focused on selling the same products as Company A's popular products with large sales and high profit margins, directly copying the popular products and selling them, and eliminating the detours in product selection and other links. In order to give Company B's products a better market competitive advantage, Wu also specifically stipulated that the prices of these products would be lower than the sales prices of Company A's products.

As the saying goes, the truth will always come out. Wu's actions were finally discovered by Company A. Law enforcement officers retrieved financial materials from banks and Alipay to prove that Wu violated trade secrets and that Wu's sisters made a profit of more than 450,000 yuan from the company.

After calculation, Wu's behavior caused Company A's sales to drop by 12 million yuan and a loss of profits of approximately 4 million yuan.

Unexpectedly, even though the law enforcement officers had already ascertained the above facts, Wu still refused to cooperate with the investigation and refused to admit the facts that had been ascertained. Moreover, the amount involved was huge, the circumstances were serious, and the nature was bad. In the end, Wu violated the confidentiality obligation and disclosed the trade secrets of Company A in his possession, which violated the relevant regulations and constituted an infringement of trade secrets. He was fined 1.75 million yuan and was transferred to the public security organs for handling.

Some bosses are also in a weak position! Many employees maliciously delete company products

It can be found that the above incidents are not uncommon in the cross-border circle. There have been many similar cases of "employees deliberately retaliating, causing damage to the company's interests" before.

According to reports, the store account of a cross-border e-commerce company in Xi'an was stolen in 2022, with losses exceeding 6 million yuan. The suspects were two former employees of the company.

It is understood that the two suspects were dissatisfied with the company and deliberately retaliated after leaving their jobs. Using some original data they had previously obtained while working, they tampered with the passwords of the company's Amazon and other stores and the bank cards used to collect payments. After entering the stores, they removed a number of hot-selling products from the shelves and changed the prices of some products to 10% off. Products that originally sold for US$90 were sold off at a low price of US$9.9. This series of operations ultimately caused the company to lose more than 6 million yuan.

In addition, since the suspect was once the sales operations director of an e-commerce alliance and had access to the passwords of many companies, while retaliating against his former company, he also stole the accounts of many cross-border e-commerce companies, implicating these cross-border companies.

Eventually, two suspects were arrested and taken into criminal custody for allegedly illegally obtaining data from computer information systems.

Coincidentally, there is also news that an operations manager of a cross-border company in Shenzhen also maliciously deleted the company's products after leaving the company, causing the company to lose 2 million yuan.

In summary, it can be found that the conflicts in similar incidents almost all revolve around the word "interest". Many employees and companies have "long-standing grievances" and are dissatisfied with the company's commission system and other issues, and in a fit of anger they do things that are not in compliance with regulations; some employees simply want to make more money, so they cross the bottom line of the law.

Among the many disputes over interests, "Is it right for employees to open private shops during working hours?" has always been a hot topic of discussion. In the cross-border circle, there are often cases where "employees are fired by the company for doing private work, which leads to a series of disputes."

Two years ago, a cross-border e-commerce company issued a statement saying that it was verified that a certain employee was doing private work, was passive and lazy, and insulted the leader. The company gave him some compensation and persuaded him to leave. However, after signing the agreement and receiving all the compensation and leaving, the employee continued to ask for the so-called "commission and compensation". After being rejected by the company, he tried to retaliate against the company by working hard on the evaluation and destroying the company's Amazon platform store and business...

In fact, no matter what kind of dispute there is with the company, such retaliation by employees is definitely wrong.

Many employees are also vulnerable

Regarding the phenomenon of doing private work, industry insiders believe that employees can have their own stores, but they must make money in a proper way, stick to moral bottom lines, not occupy company resources, not take up work time, and cannot secretly sell the same products as the company.

A cross-border person said that he adhered to these principles and bottom lines, never used the company's exclusive resources, never copied any of the company's products, never gave bad reviews to the company's stores, and never operated his own store during working hours. However, he later found out that after the company boss knew that he had a store privately, he did not talk to him publicly about his views and handling of the matter, but quietly gave the store more than a dozen bad reviews and filed more than a dozen claims ...

If what the employee said is true, the boss's behavior is definitely wrong.

Many times, when interests are involved in something, the boundaries between right and wrong seem to become blurred.

In 2023, an incident caused quite a stir in the cross-border circle. At that time, a cross-border e-commerce company issued an announcement stating that during the three months of operation of the company's Alibaba International Station, due to work errors, that is, infringement issues, the store blocked searches for a total of 21 days, causing the company a loss of approximately 64,892 yuan. These losses need to be borne by employees.

Once the incident was exposed, people across the border talked about it. Many people thought that the company had gone too far, while others felt that if the infringement was really caused by the employees, they did need to bear certain responsibilities.

It can be predicted that similar interest disputes between employees and bosses will continue to occur in the future. In any case, the majority of cross-border people need to reasonably safeguard their legitimate rights and interests and must not act on impulse.