The European electricity supplier CEZ Group disclosed the largest electricity theft in its history. The cause was an illegal mining farm operating in Bulgaria, according to local publication Vesti.
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Company specialists, together with police, discovered illegally connected cryptocurrency mining equipment in one of the farm outbuildings in the Bulgarian village of Herakovo.
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As a result of the raids, law enforcement authorities uncovered more than 1,000 mining rigs. All equipment was confiscated.
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According to preliminary estimates, the stolen electricity is equivalent to the monthly consumption of 4,250 households.
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Earlier in 2018, unknown attackers stole from Bulgarian miners 21 units of cryptocurrency mining equipment.
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