Sydney Man Sentenced for Mining Cryptocurrency With CSIRO Supercomputers

Sydney Man Sentenced for Mining Cryptocurrency With CSIRO Supercomputers
A person holds a visual representation of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin, at the "Bitcoin Change" shop in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv Feb. 6. Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images
Caden Pearson
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A 34-year-old man will serve 300 hours of community service for illegally using the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation’s (CSIRO) supercomputers and servers to mine cryptocurrency.

The man worked as an IT contractor for the Australian government when he modified the CSIRO’s computer systems to use its processing power to mine $9,400 in cryptocurrency.

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