FSB suppressed the activities of the carder group

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The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation stopped the activities of a cybercriminal group that was involved 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 online trading platforms (now already liquidated), the criminals sold the data of bank cards of Russian and foreign financial organizations obtained "as a result of illegal access to the accounts of Internet users and payment systems." With the help of this data, criminals bought high-value goods on the Internet.

Citizens of a number of countries have become victims of the cybercriminal group. The exact number of victims has not yet been disclosed.

Members of the group were detained in 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 whom have already been involved. 25 members of the group were charged under Art. 87 ("Unlawful circulation of means of payments") 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 a room on the second floor. Searches were carried out at many addresses, during which the security forces seized more than $ 1 million, 3 million rubles, gold bars and precious coins.