India, July 27 -- A project manager at Chinese technology giant Tencent has been dismissed after details of his multimillion-yuan annual compensation package surfaced online, triggering widespread discussion on Chinese social media.

According to an internal company notice cited by multiple reports, the employee, identified only by his surname Ye, was fired for leaking confidential corporate information to external parties. Tencent said the breach had a "severe negative impact both inside and outside the company."

Ye worked in Tencent's Weixin Group, the division behind WeChat, China's dominant super app with more than 1.3 billion users.

The controversy began after a screenshot, believed to have been taken from an internal Tencent platf...