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Working for internet giant Baidu has provided too many temptations for one employee, who found himself in legal hot water for leveraging the company’s huge collection of servers to mine cryptocurrency.
According to a report by China-focused news site Abacus on Monday, An Bang – a senior engineer working on Baidu’s popular search engine – downloaded Monero’s mining scripts to around 200 Baidu servers between April and June 2018.
The additional load on the systems, however, was identified by the company, which filed a complaint with the police, resulting in the arrest of the staff. Last month An was sentenced to three years in prison and a fine of 11,000 Chinese yuan ($ 1,568), according to the report.
The case is the latest in a series of cases where employees have succumbed to ease of access to power or workplace infrastructure to try to create free cryptocurrencies, just to blame the law.
Recently, in Russia, scientists from a top secret nuclear laboratory received time in a penal colony or fines for the same crime. Ukraine also has staff within its judicial system and the railways caught red-handed to extract their illicit earnings on the job.
