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Crypto miner arrested for skipping on millions in cloud server bills

Crypto mining.

A 45-year-old Nebraska man Charles O. Parks III has been charged with numerous financial crimes, including wire fraud and money laundering, as part of a scheme defrauding two cloud storage providers based in Seattle and Redmond, Washington.

Ars Technica, reporting on the indictment, beat us to the punch in alleging that the cloud providers in question are probably Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. 

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