In June last year, as reported by the Sydney Morning Herald and Crikey, the broadcaster discovered that an IT worker had set up the Bitcoin mining software on a number of ABC systems in order to generate the currently.
“As this software was for a short time embedded within pages on the ABC website, visitors to these pages may have been exposed to the Bitcoin software, however it is not possible for the ABC to ascertain whether any audience computers were affected by Bit coin software. The ABC has not received any complaints from audience members as a result of this Bitcoin code.”
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