SBU terminated activities of interregional hacker group, whose members stole money from the accounts of domestic state enterprises.

Operatives of the special service established that the organizers of the transaction are residents of Odesa and Dnipropetrovsk regions, who detected vulnerabilities in the functioning of wire transfers of government agencies.

Further, criminals under the guise of software testing, with account of existing weakness, carried out illegal transactions using computer technology and international payment systems «Money Gram» and «Global Money».

Stolen money from the accounts of state enterprises, criminals through international transfers illegally transferred to the accounts of figureheads and appropriated.

SBU officers established the involvement of offenders in obtaining funds in October 2019 in the amount of nearly two hundred thousand hryvnias, linked to Zaporizzhya branch of PJSC "Ukrposhta".

During searches at the residences of involved persons, law-enforcement officers seized computers, mobile phones and flash drives with information confirming criminal activities.

The issue of serving to offenders notices of suspicion of committing the crime provided for by Part 2 Art. 361 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine is being settled.

The pre-trial investigation is under way.

The operation was conducted by the SBU Office in Zaporizzhya region jointly with the Cyber Police Department of the National Police of Ukraine.