NY Government Employee Fined for Mining Bitcoin at Work - page 2.

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The guy should receive a merit award for bypassing/TESTING the IT security systems. I would justify my actions by saying that I tested the resilience of the network. Roll Eyes

I guess a slap on the wrist was enough to avoid the embarrassment that your network was compromised from within.

He will get a promoting soon. Head of ICT security division and Financial Liaison. < They will start a mining division to supplement their budget > ^LoL^

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He's still lucky he didn't get fired you know. I read the comments about contradicting the fine and they say he just stole power or electricity. Well as you can see he did install on a Government Branch/Department, its not appropriate for a person working there to use their computers for personal income. This is just like you are renting for pc on a shop and didn't pay for your consumed hour. See its illegal, its not just a matter of stealing power or electricity, its about he using not his things for his own. Well thats wrong, right? I don't see anything wrong about the fine on him as I said he's lucky, I am suprised he didn't get fired though.

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This is funny. Some guy used a supercomputer to mine altcoins a few years ago... only problem is it was his school's. LOL

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Quote from: xhomerx10 on August 13, 2017, 07:01:57 PM

I'm not saying he has an excuse for stealing but come on! A computer systems manager making ~$19USD per hour in New York City ...and he's the thief?!
He shouldn't be pulling in less than $40/hr. They might have done him a favour and fired him so he'd have to find a better paying computer systems manager job.

edit: Just looked up NYC school secretary salary and they make 60k per year after 10 years of service. Something fishy about the story (at least the value of the fine)

Yes exactly, things are not adding up. I don't think he'll stoop so low to mine if he wasn't getting big bucks at the time and the fine imposed on him could be an estimate of what they must have caught him earn. I think some clarity will help us a great deal.

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Quote from: Yakamoto on August 13, 2017, 07:10:23 PM

Quote from: xhomerx10 on August 13, 2017, 07:01:57 PM

I'm not saying he has an excuse for stealing but come on! A computer systems manager making ~$19USD per hour in New York City ...and he's the thief?!
He shouldn't be pulling in less than $40/hr. They might have done him a favour and fired him so he'd have to find a better paying computer systems manager job.

edit: Just looked up NYC school secretary salary and they make 60k per year after 10 years of service. Something fishy about the story (at least the value of the fine)

It's four day's vacation, so I don't think that it is that insane to see a fine in the realm of $611. If he failed to mine something of value greater than that, which is entirely possible considering the hashing power he may have available to him. It was 2014, so he wasn't getting whole Bitcoins and was more on the tip of a bunch of new miners getting involved. $611 is likely more than what he earned between 15 days worth of mining on whatever computer systems he had available to him. Even then, $611 isn't that much, especially since it was in the form of vacation days.

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This is hilarious, and should be expected. If you could mine Bitcoin at work wouldn't you? hahaha

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Quote from: xhomerx10 on August 13, 2017, 07:01:57 PM

I'm not saying he has an excuse for stealing but come on! A computer systems manager making ~$19USD per hour in New York City ...and he's the thief?!
He shouldn't be pulling in less than $40/hr. They might have done him a favour and fired him so he'd have to find a better paying computer systems manager job.

edit: Just looked up NYC school secretary salary and they make 60k per year after 10 years of service. Something fishy about the story (at least the value of the fine)

It's four day's vacation, so I don't think that it is that insane to see a fine in the realm of $611. If he failed to mine something of value greater than that, which is entirely possible considering the hashing power he may have available to him. It was 2014, so he wasn't getting whole Bitcoins and was more on the tip of a bunch of new miners getting involved. $611 is likely more than what he earned between 15 days worth of mining on whatever computer systems he had available to him. Even then, $611 isn't that much, especially since it was in the form of vacation days.

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I'm not saying he has an excuse for stealing but come on! A computer systems manager making ~$19USD per hour in New York City ...and he's the thief?!
He shouldn't be pulling in less than $40/hr. They might have done him a favour and fired him so he'd have to find a better paying computer systems manager job.

edit: Just looked up NYC school secretary salary and they make 60k per year after 10 years of service. Something fishy about the story (at least the value of the fine)

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fined for power theft? lol

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Quote from: unamis76 on August 13, 2017, 05:10:58 PM

So he was fined for stealing electricity from work... Nothing to see here. He was just happening to use that electricity to mine for Bitcoins... Its these kinds of headlines that get mainstream media attention.

Yes because people get ridiculous and somehow must up stealing with bitcoins. Maybe it is to make sense of it for them. I don't think people who jump to these conclusions are sharpest knives in the drawer. It is interesting to hear about this I'm sure so many people have though about this or are doing this. You see "news" has to sell so the sensationalize everything to gain attention and make more profits.

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So he was fined for stealing electricity from work... Nothing to see here. He was just happening to use that electricity to mine for Bitcoins... Its these kinds of headlines that get mainstream media attention.

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https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/government-employee-fined-after-getting-caught-mining-bitcoin-at-work/

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According to a recently published disposition, a computer systems manager at New York City’s Department of Education (DOE), named Vladimir Ilyayev, was fined after getting caught using the DOE’s computers to mine bitcoin.

According to reports, Vladimir Ilyayev has been working at the DOE for over a decade and, after getting caught, wasn’t fired, but got a fine of four vacation days, worth an estimated $611, by the New York City Conflicts of Interest Board (COIB).

The employee installed a bitcoin mining program on the DOE’s computers that ran at night, between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. This went on for an entire month in 2014, before he got caught by the DOE’s Division of Instructional and Information Technology.

However, this wasn’t the first time Vladimir Ilyayev attempted to use the DOE’s computer to mine bitcoin. According to the disposition, he made “five or six” attempts to install the bitcoin mining program, and in each one of them he was “thwarted by the DOE security software.” Since he didn’t give up, he eventually managed to bypass security protocols for a month.

Four vacation days is a pretty low fine, and I expect he thinks it was all well worth the hassle.

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