Mining cryptocurrency at work lands Australian civil servant in court

A 33-year-old man from Sydney, New South Wales, could be sentenced to up to 10 years in jail after allegedly hijacking computers at his workplace to mine cryptocurrency for him. He’s probably not the first person in the world to be tempted into trying that particular ruse, but what raises eyebrows on this occasion is that the man was an employee of the Australian government.

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