A hacker has stolen cryptocurrency from mining pools and generated $83,000 in digital cash in more than four months by gaining access to a Canadian Internet provider. Dell SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit (CTU) have discovered a series of malicious activities in which a cryptocurrency thief used bogus Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) broadcasts to hijack networks belonging to no less than 19 Internet service providers, including Amazon and other hosting services like DigitalOcean and OVH. The hacker specially targeted a collection of Bitcoin mining “pools” bitcoin producing cooperatives in which users contribute the computing power of their systems.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2014/08/hacker-hijacks-isp-networks-to-steal_7.html