External partner in company of Australia took advantage of the supercomputer of his employer and illegally mined bitcoins.
An Australian court has found an IT manager hired by a company in Australia to perform data archiving and software support. The reason was that this man exploited his employer's supercomputer by modifying his data, in order to carry out illegal and unlicensed cryptocurrency mining.
Jonathan Khoo, 34, worked at the Agency for Science and Bioengineeringof Research of the Commonwealth of Australia (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization = 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 detention in home and curfew and with the obligation to do 300 hours of community service.
