External partner in company of Australia exploited his employer's supercomputer and illegally mined bitcoin.
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 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 federal police of Australia estimates that Khoo managed to get about AUD 9.400 ($6.800) bitbucks, but on the other hand he wasted AUD 76.000 ($55.000) in estimated computation time and electricity to mine them.
Ο Khoo was found guilty in February and at the end of last weekteamς καταδικάστηκε σε φυλάκιση 15 μηνών. Η ποινή του πάντως έχει την δυνατότητα να μετατραπεί σε διάφορες μορφές, όπως κράτηση στο σπίτι και απαγόρευση κυκλοφορίας και με την υποχρέωση για 300 ώρες κοινωνικής work.
