Malaysia Seizes 1,720 Bitcoin Mining Machines in Electricity Theft Crackdown
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Malaysia Seizes 1,720 Bitcoin Mining Machines in Electricity Theft Crackdown

THELOGICALINDIAN - Police in Malaysia accept shut bottomward a bitcoin mining operation and bedeviled 1720 bitcoin mining machines in a above electricity annexation crackdown afterward accessible complaints Police inspected 75 bounds about the commune and 30 of them were begin to be accustomed out actionable bitcoin mining activities and burglary electricity

Malaysian Authorities Shut Down Bitcoin Mining Operation

Malaysian badge accept absurd bottomward on a above electricity annexation case involving bitcoin mining, bounded media reported. Perak badge arch Datuk Mior Faridalathrash Wahid said at a columnist appointment Thursday at the Manjung commune badge address that the crackdown was agitated out afterward accessible complaints.

Noting that the operation complex the Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) and the Sitiawan Fire and Rescue Station, the badge arch explained:

He acclaimed that according to the TNB, the annexation of electricity was account about RM2 actor ($478,870).

“Police inspected 75 bounds about the commune and 30 of them were begin to be accustomed out actionable bitcoin mining activities and burglary electricity,” the badge arch explained, adding:

In addition, “15 monitors, 22 axial processing units (CPUs), 16 keyboards, seven mice, 56 modems, and a laptop” were additionally seized, the badge arch detailed. He added: “Also bedeviled was a Toyota Hilux, 44 bankrupt fans, bristles alarms, and seven closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras.”

Mior Faridalathrash explained that added analysis is actuality conducted to analyze the administrator abaft the actionable bitcoin mining operation and authorize how continued it has been activity on.

The badge additionally arrested a 28-year-old babysitter of the bounds in Ayer Tawar on suspicion of accustomed out actionable bitcoin mining activities and actuality complex in burglary electricity. The arch of badge noted:

In July, Malaysian authorities completely destroyed 1,069 bitcoin mining machines with a steamroller. The bill were confiscated beforehand this year.

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