TRENTON, N.J. (Legal Newsline) – New Jersey Acting Attorney General John Hoffman announced a $1 million settlement Tuesday with E-Sports Entertainment LLC to resolve allegations that it spied on users computers.

E-Sports allegedly created and deployed malicious software code that infected the computers of its customers who subscribed to its anti-cheat services for certain online video games. The code allegedly allowed E-Sports to monitor users’ computers and to mine for bitcoins, a virtual form of currency. During a two week period, E-Sports allegedly used the computing resources of 14,000 computers in New Jersey and throughout the U.S. to generate $3,500 by mining for bitcoins.

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