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Titre: [Sophos]Million-dollar fine for sneaky Bitcoin botnet builders
Posté par: igor51 le décembre 08, 2013, 20:15:16
Million-dollar fine for sneaky Bitcoin botnet builders

New Jersey has slapped a million-dollar fine on an on-line gaming company that sneakily used its own anti-cheating software to mine Bitcoins on its customers' computers.

The company is paying under protest, claiming a "deep misunderstanding of the nature of our business."
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