A man was caught mining Bitcoin in the company! (From Coinsradar.net)

A company in Yingcheng City called the police, saying that the company was stolen by someone who stole electricity from equipment, causing huge losses.

According to Mr. Wu, the person in charge of the company, in January and February this year, the company's electricity bill was more than 70,000 yuan more than the same period last year.

Based on his many years of work experience, Mr. Wu felt something was wrong, so he conducted a comprehensive inspection of the office building. He finally found that there were 6 computer hosts running at the same time in an idle office on the first floor. The outside was wrapped with thick sound insulation cotton, the room temperature was abnormally high, an electric fan was cooling the machine, and a large ventilation duct was installed on the wall. These machines were obviously not internal equipment of the company, so Mr. Wu immediately reported to the leader and called the police.

After receiving the alarm, the Dongmafang Police Station of the Yingcheng Public Security Bureau immediately arranged for police to rush to the scene. After preliminary investigation, the police found that these machines were computer hosts used to mine Bitcoin.

The police inferred that the suspect might be an internal staff of the company, who felt that "mining" consumed a lot of electricity, and in order to save money, he had the crooked idea of ​​stealing public electricity.

Dongmafang Police Station and the company jointly checked the company's employees one by one and carefully checked the company's internal surveillance videos. Xu, an employee of the company's electrical instrumentation branch, took the initiative to go to the police station to surrender.

According to Xu's account, in August last year, he learned on the Internet that mining Bitcoin was very profitable, but the "mining machine" consumed a lot of electricity, so he thought of stealing the company's electricity.

At the beginning of this year, he successively purchased 18 "mining machines". Because the machines made a lot of noise when running, he was worried that they would be discovered if they were too concentrated, so he installed 9 machines in the compartment of his office on the third floor and 9 in the idle office on the first floor.

To avoid being discovered, he usually turned on the machine at night and on weekends. Xu was also worried about the aging of the line, so he took advantage of the New Year's Day holiday to replace the company's line to ensure the normal use of the line.

In just two months, 3 "mining machines" stopped due to excessive use, and the remaining 15 devices helped Xu to mine coins and made a total profit of more than 30,000 yuan. But the good times did not last long, and the high electricity bills still exposed his illegal behavior of stealing electricity to mine coins.

At present, Xu has been taken criminal coercive measures by Yingcheng police in accordance with the law on suspicion of theft, and the case is under further investigation.#内容挖矿 #BTC 😘Please follow us~