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woodward87 (OP)
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April 22, 2014, 08:27:31 PM
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Has anyone heard about the security breach at Iowa State University? It sounds like 5 of the college's servers got hacked for the purpose of generating bitcoins. I've never heard of anything like that being done before...

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/education/2014/04/22/isu-servers-hacked-social-security-numbers-exposed/8006303/



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April 22, 2014, 08:38:46 PM
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yes well this is possible Smiley
I heard many times about malwares that steal your power to mine BTC Smiley
So .. malware can infect thousands of computers, and mine Smiley this is interesting.

Perhaps they had bad security. Lames.
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April 23, 2014, 03:46:22 AM
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Synology produce NAS. Celeron & ARM.
Low power procesor.
Why Bitcoin ? Maybe scrypt coin !   Wink
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April 30, 2014, 08:16:57 PM
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You can now rent residential, commercial, and storage spaces on this campus with btc and alts.  If you'd like more details please contact me.  Smiley
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