Three employees were sentenced for stealing others' virtual currency, with total profits exceeding 2.5 million

According to CoinDesk, on April 28, reported by the Web3 Radar public account, Hong, male, born in 1994, with a high school education, was the former vice president of the Senior Attack Research Institute of Qihoo 360. Zheng, male, born in 1991, with a university education, was the team leader of the Weapon Group in the Advanced Offensive and Defensive Laboratory of 360 Company.

From February 9 to 20, 2023, Hong, in collusion with Yang and Zhang (both handled in separate cases), obtained access to the target virtual currency website by analyzing and exploiting the Yapi remote code execution vulnerability. They controlled the internal network server through lateral penetration and Trojan implantation, found the server source code, and downloaded and analyzed the victim Su's virtual wallet address, private key, etc., and constructed false commands to transfer the virtual currency from the victim's wallet address.

Subsequently, they exchanged it for other virtual currencies and sold it, obtaining a total of more than 2.5 million RMB in illegal gains. During this process, Zheng forged Dash coin signatures and broadcast transactions according to Hong's instructions, transferring 3015.9 Dash coins from the victim.

Hong initially refused to confess when notified by the public security agency, but later basically confessed to the above criminal facts. Zheng admitted the facts after being notified by the public security agency. Hong and Zheng have respectively refunded 962,790 RMB and 70,000 RMB.

1. Hong was convicted of theft and sentenced to three years in prison, with four years of probation, and fined 50,000 RMB.

2. Zheng was convicted of theft and sentenced to three years in prison, with three years of probation, and fined 50,000 RMB.

The illegal gains are to be recovered.

Hong and Zheng are to abide by laws and regulations in the community, comply with the supervision and management of community correction agencies, accept education, complete public welfare labor, and be beneficial citizens of society.