ST. PAUL — A former Northland resident will repay more than $45,000 to his former employer for misusing their computer systems to mine cryptocurrency for personal gain.

Joshua Paul Armbrust, 45, was sentenced Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Jerry Blackwell to three years of probation following his April guilty plea to a felony count of computer fraud.

Armbrust, according to court documents, continued to use the resources of Digital River, a Minnetonka-based global e-commerce and payment processing company, for more than a year after he resigned in February 2020.

Through the scheme known as “cryptojacking,” he took advantage of the now-defunct company’s computing power to obtain and liquidate $5,895 worth of Ethereum — while forcing Digital River to absorb $45,270 worth of web service fe

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