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.

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.