Use electricity from a nuclear power plant to mine cryptocurrencies

Thus, there are people willing to do anything to get cryptocurrencies, even using the most restricted areas of a nuclear power plant to connect mining machines.

This is the case of a high-paid employee at the nuclear power plant in the south of Ukraine. He performed the installation of mining machines by diverting part of the electric current from the plant to power the mining machines.

image source: https://www.energydigital.com/utilities/new-nuclear-fuel-production-unit-ukraine

The mining network was connected to the nuclear power plant intranet, this leads to the compromise of infrastructure security systems.

When the search was carried out, 6 AMD Radeon RX470 graphics cards, PCI risers, power supplies, refrigerators, a base board, a USB flash drive and a hard drive were confiscated.