The gaming company E-Sports Entertainment Association (ESEA) admitted the allegations made against her by the New Jersey Attorney General's Office regarding the Bitcoin miner on its customers' computers.
In May we passed, we had published for ESEA fraud who along with her software installed and a hidden Bitcoin miner on her clients' computers to win Bitcoins from their CPU. The company then admitted that it had some internal testing with its software, but claimed it had stopped.
However, one worker decided to continue the scam on his own and managed to make a few thousand dollars by the users began to complain that the company's software was using too many e.gconditions from their systems. The compromised app was installed on 14.000 computers.
The company apologized and donated the money to the American Cancer Society. That official was later denounced.
Today the company agreed to pay a fine of 1 million dollars. (€ 740.000). Of that amount, ESEA will actually have to pay only $ 325,000 and the rest only if it starts distributing hidden software again.
