External partner in company of Australia exploited his employer's supercomputer and illegally mined bitcoin.
An Australian court has found an IT manager who was hired by a company in Australia to perform data archiving and support software. 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 pictures και βίντεο από τον Απόλλωνα 11 όταν άγγιξε το φεγγάρι. Αυτές τις μέρες, ένα από τα καθήκοντα του τηλεσκοπίου Parkes είναι να κοιτάζει για 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 at the end of last week was sentenced to 15 months in prison. His sentence, however, has the potential to be converted into various forms, such as house arrest and curfew and the obligation of 300 hours of social work.
