Mystery electricity spike in Balik Pulau leads police to hidden bitcoin mine

30 hard drives of bitcoin, you say? Why are you asking me to turn in 20 hard drives for evidence when there were only 10 hard drives?

…through illegal electrical connections.

“The results of the TNB review found that the estimated loss due to the electricity theft case at the premises was RM22,744 and the police arrested a 60-year-old local man and seized 30 bitcoin mining machines and a TP-Link modem unit.

“The case is being investigated under Section 37(1) of the Electricity Supply Act 1990 and Section 427 of the Penal Code and the police are conducting a thorough investigation including tracking down the suspects involved in the case,” he said in a statement today.

They called him elderly… He was 60