On December 20, the official Weibo of "Zaker" (@zaker) issued an apology statement for the "Xiaomi car information leakage incident".
Xiaomi Automotive Technology *** hereinafter referred to as "your company"):
On December 17, 2023, zaker was invited to participate in the tasting and shooting of Xiaomi car static products, and before the event, Bao Moumou, an employee of our automotive division, signed the "Confidentiality Commitment". During the tasting and shooting, Bao Moumou mistakenly thought that the Xiaomi car ** announced by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology before was the material filmed in the same place of others, and mistakenly believed that your company allowed the public release of the filming**, so without the permission of your on-site staff and without informing our company, for personal purposes, three work tidbits with Xiaomi cars were sent to his personal WeChat circle of friends, and then reminded by the on-site staff, Bao Moumou immediately realized the seriousness of the matter and immediately deleted the content of the circle of friends. The release lasted about 5 minutes, but it has spread and caused a lot of buzz online.
After learning of this incident, our company attached great importance to it and immediately set up an incident investigation team on the same day to verify the relevant situation and relevant personnel. The employee involved Bao Moumou fully realized his own mistakes, our company carried out serious criticism and education on Bao Moumou, his unauthorized leakage of personal behavior has seriously violated the rules and regulations of the "Zacker Employee Handbook" and the confidentiality obligations of employees, according to the relevant rules and regulations of the company, our company fired Bao Moumou, an employee of the automobile division, and never hired.
The incident was caused by our employees' violation of the "Confidentiality Commitment", which brought a certain amount of pressure and impact to your company, for which our company sincerely apologizes to your company. Our company is willing to maintain active communication with your company, cooperate with your company to take all necessary measures, properly deal with the adverse impact caused by the leakage of public opinion, and fulfill our due responsibilities.
At the same time, our company will conscientiously learn lessons, reflect deeply, take warnings, comprehensively strengthen the legal awareness, confidentiality awareness and professional ethics education of relevant teams and practitioners, and resolutely prevent the recurrence of such incidents.