Showtime websites used visitors’ browsers to mine cryptocurrency

It’s unclear who introduced the JavaScript into the websites — it could’ve been a hacker, it could’ve been Showtime or its parent company CBS, though the latter seems less likely. But the Monero-mining scripts were written by a company called Coinhive, which provides this kind of code so that webmasters can choose to generate some …

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