Mexico investigates electricity theft after busting a crypto mining farm
- The discovery of a clandestine cryptocurrency mining farm in a remote area of Puebla has opened a new line of inquiry into large-scale electricity theft in Mexico.
- Puebla’s Public Security Secretariat said the main crime under investigation is energy theft and that authorities will expand their inquiries to neighboring municipalities in search of similar facilities.
- The announcement follows the dismantling of an operation consisting of some 300 computers used to mine digital assets that had been illegally connected to a dam forming part of a federal hydroelectric complex.
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- The discovery of a clandestine cryptocurrency mining farm in a remote area of Puebla has opened a new line of inquiry into large-scale electricity theft in Mexico.
- Puebla’s Public Security Secretariat said the main crime under investigation is energy theft and that authorities will expand their inquiries to neighboring municipalities in search of similar facilities.
- The announcement follows the dismantling of an operation consisting of some 300 computers used to mine digital assets that had been illegally connected to a dam forming part of a federal hydroelectric complex.
Sources: Elpais