An engineer at the Chinese equivalent of Google will serve three years in prison for using the company’s servers for mining, inas a result of which he received about 100,000 yuan ($ 14,300).
A 31-year-old Chinese man installed cryptocurrency mining software on 200 Baidu servers last year, which allowed him to use computing power to mine Monero.
According to court documents, the company discovered unusual activity on its servers and contacted the police.
An investigation revealed that the engineer illegally took control of a computer system. The court sentenced the gray miner to three years in prison and a fine of 11,000 yuan ($ 1,568).
Although crypto trading is prohibited in China, mining is completely legal. The country accounts for about 66% of all cryptocurrency mining operations in the world.
Let us recall that recently the director of a Chinese school was expelled from the Communist Party for underground mining in an educational institution.
Illegal mining in the workplace is commonand in Ukraine. Employees of the Ukrainian Railway and the South Ukrainian Nuclear Power Plant were caught red-handed illegally mining cryptocurrencies. In addition, last year the SBU discovered a hidden MinerGate miner installed on the server equipment of the judicial administration of Ukraine.
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