To brand a profit, too then far criminals convey hacked cryptocurrency exchanges, spread mining malware, too ransomware—and fifty-fifty kidnapped cryptocurrency investors for ransom too tried to rob a bitcoin exchange, only at ane time the greed has reached some other level.
The powerful computers are estimated to move worth some $2 million, Associated Press reports, too are used to generate cryptocurrency that at the fourth dimension of this writing are worth $11,500 each.
The theft, which took house betwixt belatedly Dec too early on January, is ane of the biggest serial of robberies Republic of Iceland has always experienced, according to law enforcement.
"This is grand theft on a scale unseen before," said Police Commissioner Olafur Helgi Kjartansson of the southwestern Reykjanes peninsula.There were 4 dissimilar burglaries (three inwards Dec too ane inwards January) inwards full that took house at diverse locations, 2 of which went downwards on the southwestern Reykjanes peninsula.
The thefts, which also included burglary of 600 graphics cards, 100 processors, 100 ability supplies, 100 motherboards too 100 sets of calculator memory, were captured on CCTV cameras past times Advania, the server society reportedly hitting past times 2 of the 3 thefts.
Although the stolen computers convey non nonetheless been found, police line arrested eleven suspects every bit business office of the investigation of the incident, ane of whom worked every bit a safety guard.
On Friday, the Reykjanes District Court expressed restraint, releasing nine people on bail too leaving alone 2 people nether arrest.
Republic of Iceland is dwelling household to the information centers of a give away of the cryptocurrency mining companies because the mining procedure is extremely energy-intensive, too renewable loose energy is inexpensive there. Almost 100 portion of the ability generated inwards the province comes from renewable sources.
The police line are currently tracking high loose energy consumption areas across Republic of Iceland inwards hopes the thieves volition plough the stolen servers on, which could potentially atomic number 82 them dorsum to the stolen servers' location.
The regime are also contacting meshwork service providers (ISPs), electricians too storage units, bespeak them to study whatever abrupt spike inwards ability usage or other signs the stolen servers had been reconnected.
The police line convey currently held off from telling the populace close the incident for a while, inwards lodge non to compromise their investigation.
