Joshua Paul Armbrust, a former employee of Digital River, has been ordered to pay over $45,000 in restitution after using company computing resources to mine cryptocurrency. Following his April guilty plea on a felony computer fraud charge, Armbrust received a three-year probation sentence by US District Judge Jerry Blackwell. 8 Armbrust’s mining activity was discovered through an internal investigation into the misuse of AWS credentials, leading to significant financial consequences for Digital River. He exploited the company’s resources for over a year after leaving in February 2020, generating earnings of $5,895 while incurring costs of $45,270 for Digital River.