The article doesn't say how much the employee made through mining, but I suspect it won't be much. He spent $22,000 on buying GPUs on his office account, increased the electricity bill by 40% and I suspect he has made pennies. People have been getting caught trying to mine cryptocurrencies in their office from 2014 onwards and this dumbskull tries it in 2017-18, when it is not even that profitable.
It doesn't even matter how much he made. I even doubt the state department knows how much has been made. The only thing that interests them is the damage they had to swallow because of this idiot.
Is he that underpaid to do such a thing, or is it his mental weakness having made him do this. I believe it may very well be a combination of both. And yes, this specific case isn't anything new.
The one case that grabbed my attention, was how Russian nuclear scientists have been trying to mine Bitcoin with the super computers that weren't even meant to be connected to the internet. It's almost unreal.