Tech Recruiter Makes Public Apology to Rival over a Hacking Attack

(Beijing) – The head of an online recruitment services firm made a public apology on March 31 after an employee hacked into a rival firm's email system in February.

In a letter posted on the company's official account on popular messaging app WeChat, Xu Dandan, the president of Lagou.com, said the employee was acting on his own accord when he deleted four apps developed by a competitor, Bosszhipin.com, from Apple's app store on February 19. Xu who founded the job-listing service for IT workers only said the employee did "something impropriate" in the letter.