Employee of a governmental authority of Florida was arrested for mining
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In the first half of February in Sarov employees of the nuclear center. The occasion was the mining of cryptocurrency for which resourceful researchers used a supercomputer. After connecting to the Internet, the security service arrested the miners, and the police opened a criminal case. A similar situation happened in America.
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The Incident occurred in the Department of citrus state of Florida, said . According to Wikipedia, the government body responsible for the regulation and marketing of the citrus industry and research in this field.
The Investigation revealed interesting results. Mainil money from the budget 51-year-old Matthew McDermott, who served as the IT Manager. To start the second half of 2017, he used his card to buy goods worth 22 thousand dollars. The order was a 24 card.
Shortly thereafter, the expenses of the Department of electricity has increased by 41 percent. Here connected law enforcement agencies. In the end, Matthew was accused of Grand larceny. Now he is in prison.
McDermott was another proof that mine in the workplace is not the best idea. Much safer .
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