Data center providers leasing space to players in the highly volatile cryptocurrency mining business have another thing to worry about besides their mining clients becoming insolvent overnight. Mining gear can be valuable enough for a crew of criminals to organize a data center heist. The Icelandic IT services firm Advania learned this firsthand in December and January, when in a series of four data center burglaries thieves stole $2 million worth of mining servers, two of the burglaries occurring in its facility.
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