An employee of a US infrastructure company had outsourced his job to a Chinese company, and spent his days surfing the Internet at his workplace.

The incident came to light when the company called the security team of a company, Verizon, for reviewing a suspected security breach on its virtual private network (VPN) logs.

An employee of Verizon, Andrew Valentine, said that the breach was then traced to the employee''s workstation from Shenyang, China, that went months back, BBC News reports.