German Police Detain 'Bitcoin Mining Hackers'
German police have detained two people suspected of hacking into computer networks and using them to mine over €700,000 worth of bitcoins. Three suspects face organised computer fraud and commercial fraud charges, according to the public prosecutor's office in Kempten. Two of the suspects were arrested Monday night in a raid by GSG-9, the German federal counter-terrorism unit. The raids were carried out in Bavaria and Lower Saxony, According to the Federal Criminal Police Office of Germany (BKA). There was no arrest warrant against the third suspect, and it is somewhat unclear why federal....
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