Lawyer analysis: What responsibility does a programmer need to bear when he leaves and deletes the company code?
With the rapid development and continuous improvement of the Internet industry, data security has become a major event affecting the survival of the company, in addition to the common hacker intrusion implanted ransomware virus, in recent years, the company's programmers "deleted the library to run away", which caused extensive discussion in the Internet circle. The most expensive time to "delete the library and run away" is during the epidemic in 2020, when The company's market value shrank by 2.15 billion yuan caused by the deletion of the database by Weimob programmers, and the programmer was finally sentenced to 6 years in prison.
Recently, a male programmer in Shanghai was dissuaded by the company during the probationary period due to dissatisfaction, and deleted the system code for which he was responsible for the venting program, resulting in the company having to ask a third-party data company to recover the data and rewrite the code to restore the online project. What Xiaobian wants to say is that for programmers, venting emotions by deleting data is an extremely wrong behavior, which not only fails to achieve the effect of reasonable rights protection, but also has a serious impact on the company's operation, and then will be punished by the law for breaking the law, and finally the programmer is sentenced to 10 months in prison.
"Deleting the library and running away" is suspected of constituting a crime: the crime of damaging a computer information system. Sentencing: fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention;
Lawyer reminds: The mainland is currently in the era of the Internet industry, and many enterprises are highly dependent on data in the operation process, so data security is greater than everything, which reminds enterprises to be standardized and reasonable when setting data management permissions. Prevent direct economic losses due to uncontrollable factors, and even affect the survival of the company.