03-03-2018, 09:11 AM
3-2-2018
Thieves steal 600 powerful bitcoin-mining computers in huge heist
In Iceland, police are hoping a power surge will lead them to the criminals' stash.
600 powerful servers specifically designed to mine bitcoin, 600 graphics cards, 100 processors, 100 power supplies, 100 motherboards and 100 sets of computer memory.
"This is a grand theft on a scale unseen before," Police Commissioner Olafur Helgi Kjartansson said, according to the AP. "Everything points to this being a highly organized crime."
The AP reports that police are tracking energy consumption across Iceland in case the thieves turn on their new computers and place a strain on the grid, since that could potentially lead them back to the stolen computers' location.
Thieves steal 600 powerful bitcoin-mining computers in huge heist
In Iceland, police are hoping a power surge will lead them to the criminals' stash.
600 powerful servers specifically designed to mine bitcoin, 600 graphics cards, 100 processors, 100 power supplies, 100 motherboards and 100 sets of computer memory.
"This is a grand theft on a scale unseen before," Police Commissioner Olafur Helgi Kjartansson said, according to the AP. "Everything points to this being a highly organized crime."
The AP reports that police are tracking energy consumption across Iceland in case the thieves turn on their new computers and place a strain on the grid, since that could potentially lead them back to the stolen computers' location.
