Employees blamed for zombie Bitcoin mining

Employees blamed for zombie Bitcoin mining

A US gaming company is blaming a rogue employee for putting code onto users' machines which turned them into unwitting Bitcoin miners. ESEA runs servers for CounterStrike and other games in the US and Europe. It said it was running a very limited test using its client software to include Bitcoin mining. Although it decided not to go through with this dubious move, it said a rogue member of staff secretly sent out the software and was collecting the gains. By the time ESEA management realised what was going he had made $3,713.55. The company is giving this amount to the American Cancer....


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