Massachusetts man charged after mining crypto in school crawl space

Feb. 24, 2023 at 3:00 am

By Mike Dalton

The perpetrator leveraged the school's electricity in an illegal mining operation.

A Massachusetts man faces charges after mining cryptocurrency in a school crawl space, according to a report from the Washington Post on Feb. 23.

That report says that Nadeam Nahas, a Cohasset, MA, municipal employee, was set to be arraigned today for fraudulent electricity use and vandalism. He did not arrive in court, and the judge issued a default warrant, giving police the power to arrest him.

The town’s facilities director — not named in the article — discovered computers and assorted equipment in a school crawl space in December 2021 and reported his discovery to the police. The town’s IT director later determined that the configuration was a crypto-mining network connected to the school’s electrical system.

Nahas, the town’s assistant facilities director, was identified as the suspect. He reportedly resigned from his position in early 2022.

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