The Polish police uncovered a case of illegal mining by an IT specialist in their own headquarters in Warsaw. As the news broadcaster TVN24 reported first, this IT specialist, as a civil service provider, had supplied the police headquarters with manipulated computers.
IT specialist operates Mining in the police headquarters
Police spokesman Mariusz Ciarka confirmed to the Polish TV broadcaster that the computer specialist had been dismissed because he had been using the power grid and IT systems at the headquarters in Warsaw for ” illegal Bitcoin mining operations “.
The public prosecutor's office has already started investigations against this “civilian” and the systems are safe again.
The bases are safe. We did not find a connection via the internal network, i.e. the police data transmission network.
Marius Ciarka, press spokesman for the Warsaw police
In the post on TVN24, which is available as a stream on the website, the police emphasize that no sensitive data has been published through the mining of crypto currencies. Even if Bitcoin is mentioned several times in the article, mining via graphics cards is more likely to be Ethereum, which has been “mined” with the help of improper police systems.
Serious consequences for possible accomplices
As the Warsaw police further explained,“ another person involved in the incident ”is about to be dismissed. So the IT specialist had an accomplice, but the police did not comment on him. Unfortunately, the whole thing “happened in the rooms of the police”, which was able to clear up the matter “very quickly”, the police spokesman concluded.
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