According to the Golden Finance report, Joshua Paul Armbrust, a 44-year-old man from Minnesota, has been charged with a "cryptojacking" scheme by the Minnesota regional prosecutor's office. The scheme utilized the computing resources of his former employer to mine ETH, resulting in a loss of over $45,000. From December 2020 to May 2021, Armbrust accessed the Amazon Web Services (AWS) account of his former employer, Digital River, without permission and used its resources for unauthorized cryptocurrency mining.
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The hidden code of former employees turns the workplace into a Cryptocurrency Mining Farm
According to the Golden Finance report, Joshua Paul Armbrust, a 44-year-old man from Minnesota, has been charged with a "cryptojacking" scheme by the Minnesota regional prosecutor's office. The scheme utilized the computing resources of his former employer to mine ETH, resulting in a loss of over $45,000. From December 2020 to May 2021, Armbrust accessed the Amazon Web Services (AWS) account of his former employer, Digital River, without permission and used its resources for unauthorized cryptocurrency mining.