According to CNews News Russia reported on the 9th, two engineers from the All-Russian Institute of Experimental Physics - Russian Federal Nuclear Center were arrested when supercomputers were trying to mine cryptocurrencies, and the center's security department was informed simultaneously of suspects' actions Excavation did not succeed, the Federal Security Agency concluded in a survey that the incident was classified as treason, and the head of the federal nuclear center is considering dismissing the two.
The cryptocurrency the two engineers are trying to tap is bitcoin.The Russian Federation's nuclear center supercomputer is used for complex calculations and is therefore suitable for mining cryptocurrencies by calculation, but the only hurdle is that the supercomputer is not connected to the internet. When people managed to solve the problem by connecting to the internal network, the central security department found out about their activities and monitored new devices connecting to the internal network.
Russian news agency reported that the Russian Federal Institute of Nuclear Information Services said that there were members of the center who were arrested for unauthorized use of office computer facilities for private purposes, including the so-called 'mining.' She pointed out that 'relevant personnel have been The authorities arrested and, to our knowledge, they are involved in criminal offenses.
The Service also pointed out that "the above activities have been registered and licensed in some companies with large computing facilities, but these activities are absolutely prohibited in our organization and are criminal."
All-Russian Institute of Experimental Physics - the Russian Federal Nuclear Center for research and production of nuclear munitions, under the Russian Atomic Energy Corporation, located in Nizhny Novgorod's confidential city of Sarov. Nizhny Novgorod federal security The Board now declined to comment on the matter.