Engineer jailed for stealing bank information

A software engineer who abused his position to gather account information on almost one million people has been sentenced to five years for credit card fraud.

Zhang Chunlei, 35, from Jiangsu province, was also fined 50,000 yuan at Tongzhou court.

Li Zhonghua, the trial judge, told METRO Zhang worked as a senior software engineer at Beijing Ruantong Power Information Technology Company when he cracked into some accounts.