A software developer was busted for outsourcing his job to a programmer in China while he surfed the Web at work.
The case was described by Andrew Valentine, a principal with Verizon Enterprise Solutions, who published a blog post about the incident.
Valentine's team was contacted by another company based in the U.S. for assistance over "anomalous activity" it noticed in records of employees logging remotely into the company's IT system.
Verizon Enterprise Solutions is not releasing the name of the company or the employee.
The company's security team eventually found that someone was logging in from Shenyang, China with the American employee's credentials -- while that employee was staring at a computer monitor in his U.S. office.
A search of the employee's computer found hundreds of PDF invoices from a third party contractor/developer from Shenyang.
Eventually, it was discovered that the employee had outsourced his own job to a Chinese consulting firm, paying about $50,000 to the firm out of his salary of several hundred thousand dollars. Read more at ABC News
