{"id":52161,"date":"2021-11-02T10:33:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T08:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=52161"},"modified":"2025-09-03T08:52:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T05:52:28","slug":"ukraine-uncovers-mining-farm-stealing-electricity-on-an-industrial-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/ukraine-uncovers-mining-farm-stealing-electricity-on-an-industrial-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine uncovers mining farm stealing electricity on an industrial scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) <a href=\"https:\/\/ssu.gov.ua\/novyny\/sbu-vykryla-milionni-rozkradannia-elektroenerhii-na-cherkashchyni\">discovered<\/a> a mining farm whose organizers were stealing electricity from the regional power grid on an industrial scale.<\/p>\n<p>The farm was found in Cherkasy region. According to the SBU, it was organized by local residents. They illegally connected equipment for mining cryptocurrencies, housed in rented warehouses, to Cherkasyoblenergo&#8217;s power grids.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary estimates put damage from the farm&#8217;s operation at more than 6 million hryvnias (over $228,000 at the time of writing). The stolen electricity would have been enough to power about ten apartments for several years, the SBU said.<\/p>\n<p>A criminal case has been opened; the investigation continues.<\/p>\n<p>The SBU noted that it would bolster systematic work to safeguard Ukraine&#8217;s energy infrastructure amid rising threats of electricity shortages.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in September, Ukrainian police <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/police-uncover-an-illegally-connected-cryptocurrency-mining-farm-in-kryvyi-rih-residents-apartment\">discovered<\/a> that a resident of Kryvyi Rih illegally connected to power grids to mine cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on 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 a mining farm whose organizers stole electricity from the regional power grid on an industrial scale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52162,"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":[1137,1143,16],"class_list":["post-52161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-intelligence-agencies","tag-ukraine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"14","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52161","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=52161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52163,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52161\/revisions\/52163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}