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Submission + - Starbucks caught mining cryptocurrency on customers wifi devices (twitter.com)

Submitted by hjf on Monday December 11, 2017 @01:41PM

hjf writes: A twitter user reports that Starbucks in-store wifi is using their captive portal to briefly mine the Monero cryptocurrency, during the 10 second delay splash screen. Starbucks has not yet answered to the tweet, and neither has their WiFi provider, Fibertel Argentina.

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