These former employees of the Crimean council of ministers were fined 30,000 rubles (420.60 Euros) each for mining Bitcoins with the Crimean council's computer network.

Russia is in the spotlight again since a few months ago we told you how Transneft the Russian pipeline company had been hacked to mine with their equipment. This time the vulnerability was in the Crimean government.

Two IT workers hired by the Crimean ministry council were fired after they were caught mining Bitcoins at work. The report indicates that the workers installed mining software on computers owned by the council.

Although at first it was not specified for how long the mining was carried out, reports from the Russian legal information agency indicate that it was from September 2016 to January 2017 with a profit of 15,000 Rubles (210,30 Euros).

This Crimean incident is just one of many cases around the world where employees are caught mining cryptocurrencies on their work equipment, with its subsequent fine or penalty.

Other known cases

• Russian nuclear scientist was captured for using the computer equipment of a weapons research and development facility.
• Employees of the Louisiana (United States) attorney general's office are under investigation for appropriation of federal resources for cryptocurrency mining.
• Employee of the IT area of ​​the board of directors of the federal reserve was fined 5,000 USD and put on probation after using a server to mine bitcoins
• Officials from Australia's official weather reporting agency were placed under investigation for mining at the start of the month

As has already been mentioned on other occasions, if you are the owner of a company and want to get "more profitability" and want to mine with your fleet of equipment ahead, you are fully entitled, but if the equipment is not yours and you do not have authorization for this it is a crime, even more dangerous as in the case of a weapons development facility.

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