A Suffolk County IT supervisor was arrested this week for allegedly running a cryptocurrency mining operation out of government offices on Long Island, officials announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Christopher Naples, 42, a supervisor of information technology operations for the county clerks office, is accused of operating 46 cryptocurrency mining devices in a county building in Riverhead, according to the Suffolk County Districts Attorneys Office.<\/p>\n
At least ten of the machines have been running since February, mining Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency and inflating the electricity bill by $6,000, the prosecutors said.<\/p>\n
The devices were located in six different rooms inside the county building, including under removable floorboards and inside an unused electrical wall panel.<\/p>\n
Mining cryptocurrency requires an enormous amount of resources, and miners have to navigate how to cover all of those electricity and cooling costs, District Attorney Sini said.<\/p>\n
This defendant found a way to do it; unfortunately, it was on the backs of taxpayers, said Sini.<\/p>\n
Investigators are working to determine if Naples profited from the scheme.<\/p>\n
Naples was charged with public corruption, grand larceny, computer trespass and official misconduct, officials said. <\/p>\n
He was arraigned Wednesday at Southampton Town Justice Court and released on his own recognizance.<\/p>\n
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