UA National Nuclear Energy Generating Company of Ukraine Aug 2019 Misuse (Q15696)
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UA National Nuclear Energy Generating Company of Ukraine Aug 2019 Misuse
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August 2019
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Ukrainian news media is reporting that last month an illegal cryptocurrency mining operation was discovered and confiscated on the site of a state-owned nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine. On July 10th Ukranian law enforcement and counterintelligence agencies discovered crypto mining equipment in a single office of the Yuzhnoukrainsk power plant run by the National Nuclear Energy Generating Company of Ukraine (known as Energoatom). The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has arrested operators from the power plant for carrying out the crypto mining, compromising the plants security with their mining operations internet connection, and reportedly even leaking classified information about the plants physical security. The discovery of this operation and its aftermath is made especially t (English)
