{"id":47016,"date":"2021-07-31T11:51:38","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T08:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=47016"},"modified":"2025-09-01T19:16:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T16:16:55","slug":"cryptocurrency-mined-on-equipment-at-polish-police-headquarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/cryptocurrency-mined-on-equipment-at-polish-police-headquarters\/","title":{"rendered":"Cryptocurrency mined on equipment at Polish police headquarters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cryptocurrency was mined on the official equipment of the Polish Police Headquarters (KGP), according to <a href=\\\"https:\/\/warszawa.wyborcza.pl\/warszawa\/7,54420,27387018,kopalnia-kryptowalut-ukryta-w-siedzibie-komendy-glownej-policji.html?disableRedirects=true\\\">Gazeta Wyborcza<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The mining was organized by a civilian IT specialist from the agency, the publication said.<\/p>\n<p>The employee has already been dismissed. The newspaper said that another employee is set to follow.<\/p>\n<p>Concerns were raised about a possible data leak from the law enforcement network in connection with illegal mining. The police denied such a possibility.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThe device used was not connected to any database, and the matter largely concerns electricity theft that is consumed in the so-called cryptocurrency mining,\u201d said Inspector Mariusz Charka.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He confirmed that the case has been forwarded to the Warsaw Prosecutor&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>As reported in Russia, engineers at the closed nuclear center in Sarov (Nizhny Novgorod region) mined bitcoins on a supercomputer. They were all fined, and one former employee received a real prison term.<\/p>\n<p>In Italy, an airport employee <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/illegal-mining-farms-discovered-at-italian-airport\">installed in work spaces<\/a> illegal Ethereum mining farms.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cryptocurrency was mined on the official equipment of the Polish Police Headquarters (KGP), Gazeta Wyborcza reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47017,"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":[1137,1444,1363],"class_list":["post-47016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-law-enforcement","tag-poland"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"9","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47016","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=47016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47018,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47016\/revisions\/47018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}