Polish police found illegal mining farm in their own building – Bits Media

A curious incident occurred at the Warsaw Police Department - the police found an illegal mining farm in their own building.

According to the local newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, equipment for mining bitcoins is not owned by the police, but civil employee, working in the IT department of management. According to representatives of law enforcement agencies, The farm worked very shortly. At the same time, there was no connection to the information network of the police station, The miner used only the electricity of the site.

According to the press secretary of the Commander-in-Chief of the Police Marius Charc (Mariusz Ciarka), At the time of the farm detection, the employee was already dismissed. Devices “were not connected to any database and business, mostly, concerns the theft of electricity ". Besides, The case was referred to the district prosecutor's office of Warsaw. Investigators are now looking for possible accomplices of the Underground Miner

At the end of last year it was reported, that the Security Service of the Italian city of Lamation-Term discovered several farms for the production of cryptocurrencies in the premises of the airport. Besides, Attackers distributed the Mainer virus in computer systems of the airport.