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The group consisted of more than 30 people and worked on the territory of 11 constituent entities of the Russian Federation.
The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation stopped the activities of a cybercriminal group engaged in the sale of stolen bank card data.
According to the FSB, the group consisted of more than 30 people and worked on the territory of 11 constituent entities of the Russian Federation. Through 90 trading Internet sites (currently liquidated), criminals were selling bank card data of Russian and foreign financial organizations obtained “as a result of unauthorized access to Internet user accounts and payment systems”. With the help of this data, criminals bought expensive goods on the Web.
Citizens of a number of countries became victims of the cybercrime group. The exact number of victims has not yet been disclosed.
The group members were detained in the Crimea, North Ossetia, Kaluga, Leningrad, Moscow, Pskov, Samara and Tambov regions, as well as in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Among the detainees there are citizens of the Russian Federation, Ukraine and Lithuania, some of them have previously been involved. 25 members of the group are charged under Art. 87 (“Illegal circulation of means of payment”) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, they are currently in a pre-trial detention center.
In one of the cases of detention, the security forces had to climb a ladder and break a window in order to get into the room on the second floor. Searches were conducted at many addresses, during which the security forces seized more than $ 1 million, 3 million rubles, gold bullion and precious coins.
The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation stopped the activities of a cybercriminal group engaged in the sale of stolen bank card data.
According to the FSB, the group consisted of more than 30 people and worked on the territory of 11 constituent entities of the Russian Federation. Through 90 trading Internet sites (currently liquidated), criminals were selling bank card data of Russian and foreign financial organizations obtained “as a result of unauthorized access to Internet user accounts and payment systems”. With the help of this data, criminals bought expensive goods on the Web.
Citizens of a number of countries became victims of the cybercrime group. The exact number of victims has not yet been disclosed.
The group members were detained in the Crimea, North Ossetia, Kaluga, Leningrad, Moscow, Pskov, Samara and Tambov regions, as well as in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Among the detainees there are citizens of the Russian Federation, Ukraine and Lithuania, some of them have previously been involved. 25 members of the group are charged under Art. 87 (“Illegal circulation of means of payment”) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, they are currently in a pre-trial detention center.
In one of the cases of detention, the security forces had to climb a ladder and break a window in order to get into the room on the second floor. Searches were conducted at many addresses, during which the security forces seized more than $ 1 million, 3 million rubles, gold bullion and precious coins.