CrimeaPRESS reports:
In Simferopol, police officers received statements from 56 and 66-year-old Crimean women who discovered that funds had been written off from their bank cards for purchases in an online store that they had not made. The total amount of damage amounted to more than 200 thousand rubles.
As part of operational search activities, employees of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic of Crimea, together with colleagues from the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the city of Simferopol, identified and detained a 21-year-old resident of the Republic of Bashkortostan. Criminal cases have been initiated under Part 3 of Art. 158 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Theft). The young man faces a maximum penalty of imprisonment for up to 6 years. Currently, the suspect has been chosen as a preventive measure in the form of detention— reported the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Crimea.
Police officers are taking measures to establish the involvement of the detainee in committing similar crimes in the territory of the Republic of Crimea. And although the circumstances of the crime have not been disclosed, it can be assumed that the police arrested a young hacker who used JavaScript sniffer technology. Simply put, this is a kind of grabber scanner, with the help of which car thieves open cars in parking lots. The main thing is to detect the moment when the client sets the car alarm in order to read the code. As it turned out, on the Internet, on online trading platforms, a similar thing can happen. Hackers are unlikely to be able to infect online store sites with viruses; after all, they are well protected, but it is possible to inject certain code (at the right time). However, then the 21-year-old Bashkir is a rather unique specialist. And we still have to work and work with him…
ADDED: The Crimean prosecutor’s office clarified: he’s not that much of a “hacker”… But it couldn’t have happened without a hacker.
The young man, wanting to receive illegal income, agreed with an unidentified person, whose details are established through investigation, to steal funds. To do this, the accomplice, using the card data, including the number, expiration date and CVC code provided by the accomplice, made cash payments from the bank cards of two residents of the region for purchases on one of the popular electronic delivery platforms. The orders were placed by the accused and the goods were delivered to the address indicated by him in the city of Ufa— reported the prosecutor’s office.
In this way, 200 thousand rubles were stolen. The suspect was detained in the city of Ufa by employees of the Crimean internal affairs bodies. The court chose a preventive measure against the young man in the form of detention for 2 months. The criminal investigation continues.
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