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Mar 18, 2020 · Information Security

How a Baidu Ops Engineer Was Sentenced for Mining Crypto on 155 Servers

A former Baidu operations engineer illegally mined Bitcoin and Monero using 155 of the company's search servers, earning about 100,000 CNY before being caught, fined, and sentenced to three years in prison, highlighting severe risks of abusing corporate computing resources.