15 months in prison for illegal bitcoin mining

An external partner at an Australian company exploited his employer's supercomputer and illegally bitcoin.

An Australian court found an IT manager who was hired by a company in Australia to perform data archiving and support guilty . The reason was that this man took advantage of his employer's supercomputer by modifying its data, in order to conduct illegal and unlicensed cryptocurrency mining.

Jonathan Khoo, 34, worked for the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization of Australia. CSIRO), a company that operates the Parkes Radio Telescope, which received the first images and videos of Apollo 11 when it touched the moon. These days, one of the tasks of the Parkes Telescope is to look for Pulsars.

The Australian Federal Police estimate that Khoo managed to collect about 9.400 AUD ($ 6.800) bitbucks, but on the other hand wasted 76.000 AUD ($ 55.000) in estimated calculation time and electricity, to extract them.

Ο Khoo was found guilty in February and was sentenced to 15 months in prison late last week. His sentence, however, has the possibility of being converted into various forms, such as house arrest and a curfew and with the obligation to do 300 hours of social .

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