Australian Contractor Sentenced for Mining Crypto on State Computers

According to a report from the Sydney Morning Herald, Jonathan Khoo worked with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) as a contractor. Australian authorities corroborated the agency’s accusations, pointing out that Khoo had taken valuable state resources and diverted them to personal use.

As far as diverting government technical resources for personal crypto mining goes, Khoo is most likely a first in Australia. Last year, reports confirmed that the Russian government had fined Denis Baykov, a local citizen who worked at a government-owned nuclear warhead facility and used its computers to mine Bitcoin.

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