Corporal Brent Hill of the Ontario Division of RCMP's National Chemical Diversion Program says, «Where there is
easy illegal profit to be made, there is organized crime, and organized crime is gaining a steady foothold into the clandestine lab business.
Cryptocurrency mining operations,
illegal or not, are becoming a real problem for the higher education sector, where hackers have found plenty of
easy to hack systems, but also where students are using university resources to make an extra
profit via deliberate cryptocurrency mining.