{"id":33417,"date":"2020-12-15T16:12:35","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T14:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=33417"},"modified":"2025-08-28T13:44:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T10:44:15","slug":"media-more-than-1000-mining-rigs-seized-in-bulgaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/media-more-than-1000-mining-rigs-seized-in-bulgaria\/","title":{"rendered":"Media: More than 1,000 mining rigs seized in Bulgaria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">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 <\/span><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.vesti.bg\/bulgaria\/chez-razkri-naj-goliamata-krazhba-na-tok-v-istoriiata-si-6118866\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener noreferrer\\\"><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Vesti<\/span><\/a><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Company specialists, together with police, discovered illegally connected cryptocurrency mining equipment in one of the farm outbuildings in the Bulgarian village of Herakovo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">As a result of the raids, law enforcement authorities uncovered more than 1,000 mining rigs. All equipment was confiscated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">According to preliminary estimates, the stolen electricity is equivalent to the monthly consumption of 4,250 households.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Earlier in 2018, unknown attackers <span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">stole from Bulgarian miners<\/span><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\"> 21 units of cryptocurrency mining equipment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full feed of news, <a href=\\\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European electricity supplier CEZ Group revealed the largest electricity theft in its history. The theft was caused by an illegal mining farm operating in Bulgaria, according to local publication Vesti.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[296,1137],"class_list":["post-33417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bulgaria","tag-cryptocurrency-mining"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"11","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33419,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33417\/revisions\/33419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}