KUANTAN: Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) raided 33 premises around Kuantan suspected of interfering with the electricity distribution board as part of a Bit...
TNB personnel inspect the electrical distribution network of a Bitcoin mining operation during a raid as part of TNB Kuantan Bitcoin Ops on Aug 6, 2019. - Bernama: Tenaga Nasional Bhd raided 33 premises around Kuantan suspected of interfering with the electricity distribution board as part of a Bitcoin mining operation, resulting in a loss of RM3.2 million to the utility company.
“TNB collected evidence that 23 premises were running Bitcoin mining activities while the other 10 premises were aware of our raid this time around and destroyed the evidence,” she told reporters at Wisma TNB, here on Tuesday. The Bitcoin miners used high-powered computer networks that used electricity directly from the distribution board, bypassing the meter.
“The metered 3 Amp was used only for one lamp and a suction fan. They paid a bill of only RM219 whereas they should have been billed RM108,000 a month for the unmetered 1,500 Amp,” she said, adding the account holder would have to pay the arrears in the bill.
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