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DeepSeek disclosure costs Moscow executive her job
A Moscow court rejected a sales director’s claim after she was fired for sending protected company information to DeepSeek.
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A Moscow court has rejected a former sales director’s claim for reinstatement and compensation after she was dismissed for allegedly disclosing commercial secrets through DeepSeek.
The woman had worked for the unnamed engineering company for less than six months, earning a monthly salary of more than 800,000 rubles. After her dismissal, she asked the court to declare the employer’s order unlawful, change the reason for termination to “by agreement of the parties,” and award a 5 million ruble severance payment.
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The court said she had no business need to extract protected information from the company’s local storage, send it to an external email address outside the employer’s control, or upload it to DeepSeek, according to case materials reviewed by RIA Novosti.
“The court concludes that … the claimant had no production necessity to extract information contained on the employer’s locally protected media, send it to an external email address not controlled by the employer, or post it on the resource of the third-party DeepSeek service.”
The ruling follows a July 22 incident in which customer conversations with the Chinese chatbot appeared publicly online, including work documents and private messages. The data reportedly became accessible because of DeepSeek’s “Share” option.
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