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Cyber police of Ivano-Frankivsk region along with SBU State Security Service agents of Lviv region have exposed the criminal group that organized the sale of military information to more than 50 clients, including from Russia.

“According to preliminary information, the lawbreakers bought the appropriate databases with information on DarkNet and sold it to interested parties. To do this, they created an appropriate website that they registered abroad. The cyber police department is establishing how the information with restricted access was leaked … from state registries,” the police said.

Cyber police are establishing how information with limited access was made public.

Investigators said in order to prevent the identification of the owners of the resource, the website was hosted on a foreign server. The information contained information on the export and import of goods into the territory of Ukraine, including the purchase and movement of military equipment. The hackers’ customer base consisted of about fifty interested persons, among whom were also residents of Russia. The cost of services depended on the amount of illegally sold data.

When conducting searches at the addresses of residence and in the office of the participants in the criminal group, law enforcement officers seized equipment that housed limited access information databases. Bank cards were also seized, which were used to cash out funds received from the sale of databases.

The event is qualified under two articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine: Under Part 2 of Article 361 (unauthorized interference with the operation of computers, automated systems, computer networks or telecommunication networks) and Part 2 of Article 361-2 (unauthorized sale or distribution of information with limited access).

As reported, at the end of October, police detained a 32-year-old hacker in a hotel in Kyiv, who was hiding in Ukraine from U.S. law enforcement agencies and is suspected of embezzling $6 million from accounts of financial institutions.