A Coinhive user hacked BlackBerry Mobile website to mine Monero coins before the scam was identified and details of which were published on Reddit.

The sudden surge in Bitcoin’s price has motivated people to mine cryptocurrencies and hope to become a millionaire within no time. It is true that there are legal ways of mining cryptocurrencies, but some would choose a quick and wrong way.

BlackBerry Mobile Site and Coinhive

Now, a Reddit user /Rundvleeskroket has revealed that the official website of BlackBerry Mobile was caught using Coinhive’s cryprocurrency code to mine Monero digital coins by taking advantage of user’s computing power.

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