A Massachusetts man faces charges after mining cryptocurrency in a school crawl space, according to a report from the Washington Post on Feb. 23.
That report says that Nadeam Nahas, a Cohasset, MA, municipal employee, was set to be arraigned today for fraudulent electricity use and vandalism. He did not arrive in court, and the judge issued a default warrant, giving police the power to arrest him.
The town’s facilities director — not named in the article — discovered computers and assorted equipment in a school crawl space in December 2021 and reported his discovery to the police. The town’s IT director later determined that the configuration was a crypto-mining network connected to the school’s electrical system.
Nahas, the town’s assistant facilities director, was identified as the suspect. He reportedly resigned from his position in early 2022.
The original article did not report which cryptocurrency Nahas mined. However, Bitcoin is typically mined in both legitimate and
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