Baidu engineer illegally controlled the company's server to "mine": made a profit of 100,000 in 4 months and was sentenced to 3 years in prison
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From mining and cashing out to being sentenced to three years in prison, a Baidu employee completed these three steps in just seven months.
That’s right, Baidu’s search server is used for mining.
In a recently published judicial document, the details of Baidu's operation and maintenance staff An's "fleecing" were disclosed.
From the end of January to the end of May 2018, An took advantage of 155 servers to mine Bitcoin and Monero, and sold some of them for a profit of 100,000 yuan.
But after the incident, not only was the money confiscated, but he was also fined an additional 11,000 yuan and sentenced to three years in prison.
Recently, the China Judgments Online website published a criminal ruling, disclosing the details of the case.
Being tempted by profit, taking risks for currency
An started to have evil thoughts in early 2018.
At the end of 2017, the price of Bitcoin soared to nearly $20,000. According to the exchange rate at the time, the price of one Bitcoin was nearly 130,000 yuan.
Although the price of the currency has dropped subsequently, you can still earn tens of thousands of dollars by mining one, which is a great temptation.
However, an ordinary person has limited computing power, and it is almost impossible to mine coins using his own equipment. If one wants to make a fortune with virtual currencies, he first needs a lot of computing power.
Therefore, An thought of taking advantage of his position and using Baidu's servers to mine for himself.
At that time, An had been working at Baidu for one year and three months. As an employee of Baidu's search operation and maintenance department, he had the authority to operate Baidu's search server.
The MacBook provided by the company has the iterm software that can control all server control machines. With the help of this software, he uploaded the mining script through the control machine and let the server download the mining script in batches.
In this way, Baidu's computing power can be used by An for mining.
At 23:04:57 on January 26, 2018, An started his journey to get rich through mining.
He first uploaded a compressed file miner.tar.gz using his work account, which contained a script called java_4u3. This script can automatically decompress, create directories, delete directories, and automatically connect to the proxy for network exchange, thereby achieving the purpose of controlling the server.
Then, he compiled the mining program and deployed it on 155 servers that illegally controlled Baidu. He then uploaded the mining script through the central control machine and issued batch download instructions through the iterm software, allowing more than 200 servers to download the mining script.
Through the script, Baidu's computing resources are uploaded to the hash website.
The hash website mines Monero through the computing resources it uploads, and finally settles with it in Bitcoin based on the amount of computing resources it uploads.
Then, An withdrew the bitcoins from the hash website to the otcbtc.com website, and sold the bitcoins for about 100,000 yuan through this website. The people who bought his bitcoins then transferred the money to his Alipay account.
Currently, there are about 1.44 bitcoins in the wallet of the hash website, and about 1.5 bitcoins in the otcbtc.com website.
According to the price of the currency, An probably earned only 4 to 5 bitcoins through this operation. I wonder if friends who use Baidu search have felt that it has become laggy during this period?
But An's handcuffs warned that they were approaching.
Mining for 4 months, occupying 155 servers, the matter was exposed
After An deployed the mining script for the last time (at 23:59:05 on May 30, 2018), Baidu discovered the problem - a large number of servers were operating abnormally, occupying the company's server computing resources and executing mining programs.
Nani?? !!
Then they followed the network cable and retrieved the background operation log and found that the operator was An , a senior operation and maintenance engineer in the search and operation department.
At the same time, they also found that An had been secretly mining for several months, deployed mining scripts many times, and controlled as many as 155 servers .
Is this even possible?
Baidu has clearly stipulated that such activities are prohibited. Mining software will occupy the server's computing resources, causing the system to run slower.
Then, Baidu spent 27,000 yuan to ask Beijing Netease Technology Co., Ltd. to provide emergency services. The specific projects were: sample extraction, sample analysis, server log extraction, log analysis, tracking and tracing, and report writing.
After obtaining solid evidence, Qin, the head of Baidu's Professional Ethics Construction Department, called the police.
At around 10 o'clock on July 18, An, who was at work, was called to the conference room by the staff of the Professional Ethics Committee. With the police present, he confessed on the spot that he had illegally controlled the Baidu server.
After arresting An, the police seized a silver Apple laptop, a TOKEN key, an Apple 4S mobile phone, an iPhone 6 mobile phone, and a Huawei mobile phone at the scene.
On August 24, An was formally arrested and detained in the Haidian District Detention Center in Beijing.
On January 4, 2019, the Haidian District People's Court of Beijing officially filed the case. The public trial held that the defendant An violated national regulations and used technical means to illegally control computer information systems, and the circumstances were particularly serious. His behavior constituted the crime of illegally controlling computer information systems and should be punished:
Sentenced to three years in prison and a fine of RMB 11,000 .
The sentence will be calculated from the date of execution of this judgment. If the person is detained before the execution of the judgment, one day of detention will be deducted from the sentence, that is, from July 18, 2018 to July 17, 2021.
At the same time, RMB 111,000 seized in the case, of which RMB 100,000 will be confiscated as illegal gains; RMB 11,000 of it will be deducted from the fine.
However, An was dissatisfied and filed an appeal within the statutory period, but did not submit any new evidence.
The Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People's Court accepted the case on January 13, 2020, formed a collegial panel in accordance with the law, decided not to hold a trial, rejected the appeal, upheld the original judgment, and the trial has now ended.
Sentenced to 3 years in prison for making a profit of 100,000 yuan, netizens: The income is not even enough to pay for electricity
After the details of the case were disclosed, it sparked a lot of discussion.
The "Case Reading Notes" shared by Zhang Hongqin, a lawyer at Beijing Wanshang Tianqin Law Firm, pointed out that the final sentence of three years in this case was already lenient.
According to the law, the defendant violated state regulations and illegally controlled computer systems, the circumstances of which were particularly serious, and should be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years . However, because he made a truthful confession and returned the illegal gains, he was given a lighter sentence and sentenced to three years in prison.
Profit of 100,000 yuan but loss of 3 years of freedom, most netizens cannot understand it. A senior operation and maintenance engineer must earn tens of thousands of yuan a month, what's the point of doing this?
Some netizens said that this income is not enough to cover the electricity bill. Some netizens also "jokely" said: "More than 100 servers, only 100,000 yuan, this level needs to be improved..."
But more importantly, it is shameful in itself to use the employer's salary and resources to do improper things that harm the interests of others.
There are thousands of roads, but obeying the law is the first one.
It is not worth it to gamble your freedom and future for a small speculative profit.
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