A former employee of NetEase illegally accessed the permissions of 171 long-inactive accounts in "Dream of Xi You," earning 1.73 million yuan over four years and was sentenced to three years in prison.

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08/08/2026
On the evening of August 8, news emerged that the case of embezzlement by a former employee of NetEase Interactive Entertainment was disclosed by the China Judgment Document Network. The judgment shows that Liu, born in 1990, holds a bachelor's degree and joined a game company in Guangzhou in 2013 as a supervisor of the account management review group in the customer service delivery department, possessing backend operational qualifications for account recovery and permission verification. Ultimately, the court sentenced Liu to 3 years in prison, with a 3-year probation, and fined him 20,000 yuan for the crime of illegally obtaining data from a computer information system.