An online game company that had mined Bitcoin on the user's PC revealed

ByBTC Keychain

Virtual currency that can be easily sent and received by using the P2P mechanism "Bitcoin(Bit coin) "is increasingly aware of the day as a net payment tool,ATM corresponding to bit coinAppears up to. In order to get a bit coin, there is a method called mining to run a dedicated program on your own PC, but mining is a sophisticated algorithm that sets limits on reserves of bit coins and keeps excavation pace constant Because it is adopted,New excavations are becoming difficult day by dayAnd that. A case in which E-Sports, an online game company that used a method of joining a PC user of a game secretly to mining a bit coin whose degree of difficulty has become high, can order payment of settlement money of about 100 million yen Occurred.

State of New Jersey
http://nj.gov/oag/newsreleases13/pr20131119a.html

Brilliant But Evil: Gaming Company Fined $ 1 Million For Secretly Using Players' Computers To Mine Bitcoin - Forbes
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/11/19/brilliant-but-evil-gaming-company-turned-players-computers-into-unwitting-bitcoin-mining-slaves/

E-sports site settles covert Bitcoin mining case for $ 1 million | Ars Technica
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/11/e-sports-site-settles-covert-bitcoin-mining-case-for-1-million/

The beginning of the thing was that in April 2013, while the online gamer was playing the game, I noticed that my PC was overloading more than necessary. A gamer who felt wonder confirmed the log and found that the PC is helping bit coin mining of others in a bit coin pool in the Czech Republic. As we continued the investigation, the gamer 's PC'E-SportsIt is determined that the client is the cause.

Gamers will immediately prompt attention to other gamers on the E-Sports forumPost a post. E - Sports explained that one employee forgot to delete the code to get the bit coin embedded in the client as April Fools' joke.

BySpartan Red 1492

E-Sports later fired one of the engineers who incorporated bit coin mining into the code and donated 7426 dollars (about 740,000 yen), which is twice the amount of money illegally acquired, to the American Cancer Society As it is, the fired engineers opposed the companyI am suing a lawsuit.

E-Sports's case is not over, and the 18th November 2013 Attorney General of New Jersey said, "To end the criminal action against E-Sports, E-Sports cost $ 1 million I agreed to pay the settlement of the yen). " The Attorney General commented that "the accused accessed thousands of users' PCs without permission and monitored the PC and acquired the virtual currency."

BySalFalko

As E-Sports has been given a 10-year execution deferral, we first pay $ 325,000 (about 32 million yen) out of settlement money, the rest will come out of possibility of future payment due to future actions ... apparently ... For this dispositionE-Sports announced "I have not agreed"doing.

Until now, when installing free software, there was a model to make money by urging the installation of bundled mysterious tool bars and applications, but instead of providing it free in the future, the CPU There seems to be a possibility that something of the type of generating Bitcoin using power will come out.