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		Shoop on June 5, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An update on last week's customer shutdown inciden... I believe the purpose of these checks is for when people's outdated wordpress install or whatever gets compromised by script kiddies. Generally, the scripts install crypto miners to mine for the hacker until your account gets shut down, running you up a huge bill in the process.

treis on June 5, 2019 [–]

I think it's moreso people continually creating new accounts to get free credits. Then bitcoin mining turns the credits into actual money.

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