Attackers in telephone conversations learned from representatives of online stores access data to electronic offices on the website of the mail company. Further, in personal accounts, the numbers of the controlled bank cards were tied to all express invoices and received money for sending. The losses amount to more than a million hryvnias.

The fraudulent scheme was exposed by the employees of the Cybercrime Control Department of Kharkiv region together with the investigative department of the regional police. The 30-year-old organizer of the criminal group and several executors are serving sentences in places of imprisonment, from where they coordinate the activities of other members of the criminal group who are in their own right body.

The attackers made fictitious orders in online stores with the sending of an overdraft payment. Then they called sellers, posing as employees of the postal company, and asked for access codes to personal accounts. After — in personal accounts on the website of the postal service, the details for payment of express invoices were replaced. As a result, the money of buyers went to accounts controlled by the attackers.

According to preliminary estimates, the company's customers suffered more than a million hryvnias of losses.

Law enforcement officers conducted 24 searches in the homes of defendants and places of punishment in Kharkiv and Sumy region. According to the results, computer equipment, mobile phones, bank cards, SIM cards were removed.

Three members of the group were detained in accordance with Art. 208 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine. Currently, law enforcement officers are arresting all those involved in illegal activities.

Criminal proceedings under Part 4 of Art. 190 (Fraud), Art. 28 (Committing a criminal offense by an organized group or criminal organization), Part 1.2 of Art. 361 (Unauthorized interference in the operation of computers, automated systems, computer networks or telecommunication networks) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The defendants are declared under suspicion, they are threatened with up to twelve years in prison with confiscation of property.

Procedural management is carried out by the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor's Office. Investigative actions were carried out jointly with the regional administration of the SBU and employees of the North-East Interregional Department for the Execution of Criminal Punishments of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine.

Cyber Police Department of the National Police of Ukraine