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Topic
Board Altcoin Discussion
The Pirate Bay's website steals your CPU Power to mine Monero
by
Cryptobird
on 19/09/2017, 15:30:15 UTC
https://i.imgur.com/Kpe9Fqd.jpg

As you may already know, The Pirate Bay is one of the most popular torrent and file-sharing websites in the world.
The Pirate Bay's team has recently been caught taking advantage of its website popularity, and trying to make money by secretly injecting a Javascript code in it, to make its visitors generate (Mine) a cryptocurrency called Monero for the team.
After this issue was reported, The Pirate Bay issued a statement on its website saying that, it was only a test for just 24 hours :

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"This is only a test. We really want to get rid of all the ads. But we also need enough money to keep the site running," says The Pirate Bay.



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