A subscription streaming site owned by mixed martial-arts powerhouse Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is at the center of the latest controversy around clandestine, browser-based cryptocurrency mining.
Multiple users on social media reported yesterday that code developed by Coinhive – a monero mining script that can be embedded in a web page – was found in the code on the UFC’s Fight Pass streaming site. It’s unclear at this time where the code was sourced from, and a customer support staffer for UFC told a user that “we take these matters very seriously, and will review this.”
Users found lines of code for Coinhive’s mining script in the HTML for the page, as shown in two different screengrabs shared to Imgur.
The software was also spotted running by several users, included one who later flagged it on on Twitter. After one reddit user emailed UFC support about it, he got a response saying that they were looking into it. The attention that the situation attracted appears to have spurred UFC to action, as the script was ultimately removed, according to another post…
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