Malaysia was rocked by an surprising discovery on Tuesday when an explosion and billowing smoke from a home alongside Lorong Cekara Purnama, Bandar Puncak Alam, led authorities to uncover an unlawful bitcoin mining operation.
The newest improvement comes because the Southeast Asian nation continues to battle unauthorized crypto mining, which has brought about important monetary losses and strains on the nation’s energy infrastructure.
Sungai Buloh district police chief, Superintendent Mohd Hafiz Muhammad Nor, revealed that 14 volunteer firefighters from Saujana Utama and Bestari Jaya have been dispatched after an area girl reported the incident to the Sungai Buloh district police headquarters at 11:41 a.m. on February eleventh.
Upon arrival, each firefighters and patrolling law enforcement officials needed to forcibly enter the unoccupied home, the place they discovered the fireplace originating from a room full of modified electrical circuits. They’d been illegally linked to the facility grid and had short-circuited, which brought about the blaze.
After extinguishing the fireplace on the night of Tuesday, a joint investigation by the police and Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) personnel revealed…