HACKERS HAVE HIJACKED various government-run websites with Coinhive's notorious Monero miner, which steals visitors' processing power to mine cryptocurrency.
Thousands of websites have been infected by the 'cryptojacking' malware, including the UK's Information Commissioner's Office, Student Loan Company and the Scottish NHS Helpline. In the US, the Indiana government and the US courts system were also discovered to be running the Monero-mining script.
The ICO's website has been taken offline by its administrators as they attempt to fix the problem, and is still unavailable at the time of writing.
As discovered by security researcher Scott Helme, the infection came through a third-party plugin called Browsealoud, developed by Texthelp, which aims to help those with impaired vision use the web.
