News Duo Arrested for Installing Crypto Mining Software on Department Store Computers

[Admin]

An Italian couple allegedly compromised machines at multiple stores to mine cryptocurrency on their behalf.

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[ThatMouse]

Pretty bad that a major retailer gives full admin rights to employees and customers apparently. I worked for a major department store and you would have never been able to install anything or access any Windows functions from the store register. If these PC's are that wide open I would definitely not shop there.

They should have gone for the credit card numbers instead. These bozos probably made 5 cents a month from a CPU based miner.

 

[Brian28]

Pretty bad that a major retailer gives full admin rights to employees and customers apparently. I worked for a major department store and you would have never been able to install anything or access any Windows functions from the store register. If these PC's are that wide open I would definitely not shop there.

They should have gone for the credit card numbers instead. These bozos probably made 5 cents a month from a CPU based miner.

These are the display models, not the registers. Customers expect to "play" with them a bit, though they still should be locked down, it's not a direct risk to the private sales data or credit cards.

 

[Krotow]

Feed them to lions.