{"id":45755,"date":"2021-07-08T15:22:44","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T12:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=45755"},"modified":"2025-09-01T12:54:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T09:54:34","slug":"sbu-uncovers-ukraines-largest-illicit-crypto-mining-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/sbu-uncovers-ukraines-largest-illicit-crypto-mining-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"SBU uncovers Ukraine&#8217;s largest illicit crypto mining farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has uncovered in Vinnytsia a mining farm illegally connected to the power grid. In a statement, <a href=\"https:\/\/ssu.gov.ua\/novyny\/sbu-vykryla-naibilshu-kryptofermu-v-ukraini-maizhe-5-tys-kompiuteriv-mainyly-hroshi-na-vinnytsiaoblenerho\">they said<\/a> this is the largest illicit farm ever detected by Ukrainian law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>The equipment was located in one of the former premises of Vinnytsiaoblenergo. According to the SBU, the farm was organized by residents of Kyiv and Vinnytsia.<\/p>\n<p>During searches, law enforcement officers seized nearly five thousand units of equipment, including 3,800 gaming consoles, more than 500 video cards and 50 processors. According to preliminary estimates, the monthly damage from the farm&#8217;s operation was about 5-7 million hryvnias.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/577d814a387a089e6ac60717ffd65467-1024x682.jpeg\" alt=\"SBU uncovers Ukraine's largest illicit mining farm\" class=\"wp-image-141881\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/577d814a387a089e6ac60717ffd65467-1024x682.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/577d814a387a089e6ac60717ffd65467-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/577d814a387a089e6ac60717ffd65467-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/577d814a387a089e6ac60717ffd65467-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/577d814a387a089e6ac60717ffd65467.jpeg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/ssu.gov.ua\/novyny\/sbu-vykryla-naibilshu-kryptofermu-v-ukraini-maizhe-5-tys-kompiuteriv-mainyly-hroshi-na-vinnytsiaoblenerho\" title=\"https:\/\/ssu.gov.ua\/novyny\/sbu-vykryla-naibilshu-kryptofermu-v-ukraini-maizhe-5-tys-kompiuteriv-mainyly-hroshi-na-vinnytsiaoblenerho\">SBU<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing; authorities have opened a criminal case into electricity theft.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier the SBU <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ukraine-shuts-down-bitcoin-mining-farm-whose-operation-caused-over-3-million-hryvnias-in-damages\">stopped the operation of the mining farm<\/a>, which the owners illegally connected to a transformer substation in Chernihiv Oblast.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s bitcoin news in our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) uncovered in Vinnytsia a mining farm illegally connected to the power grid. The agency said this was the largest illicit mining farm ever detected by Ukrainian law enforcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1137,504,1143,16],"class_list":["post-45755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-energy","tag-intelligence-agencies","tag-ukraine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"15","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45757,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45755\/revisions\/45757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}