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Nebraska Man pleads guilty to $3.5 million cryptojacking scheme

​A Nebraska man pleaded guilty on Thursday to operating a large-scale cryptojacking operation after being arrested and charged in April. Charles O. Parks III (also known as “CP3O”) admitted that he didn’t pay a $3.5 million bill after renting cloud computing time from two providers to mine approximately $970,000 worth of cryptocurrency. Even though the Justice Department didn’t name the…