The website of the São Paulo state government was being used to mine cryptocurrencies.
The São Paulo State government's "Cidadão SP" website used the CoinHive code to infiltrate the computers of users visiting the page and, in this way, mine the Monero cryptocurrency; after the disclosure by Chilean developer Felipe Hoffa, who works for Google, the code was removed from the page; the Communications Secretariat of the Geraldo Alckmin government reported that the CoinHive code was "probably" the result of an external intrusion and affirms that there were no losses in relation to the services provided to the population.
SP 247 - The Cidadão SP website, from the São Paulo state government, used the CoinHive code to infiltrate the computers of users who visited the page and, in this way, mine the Monero cryptocurrency. After the disclosure made by Chilean developer Felipe Hoffa, who works for Google, the code was removed from the page.
In a statement, the Communications Secretariat of the Geraldo Alckmin government reported that the CoinHive code was "probably" the result of an external intrusion. "The Cidadão.SP Portal continues to operate normally. Due to a specific, now-resolved, error, the source code of the page in question was updated. This measure did not result in any disruption to services provided to the public," the statement concludes.