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Facebook sues Ukrainian hacker for selling user information from 178 million accounts

October 23, 2021

Facebook is suing a Ukrainian national suspected of scraping and selling information from 178 million users on the platform in 2018-2019, according to American publication Insider. According to the court documents, Ukrainian hacker Alexander Solonchenko exploited a feature in Facebook Messenger called ‘contact importer,’ which allows users to sync their phone address books and view which of …

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Ukrainian Security Service uncovers bot farm that sells bots to Russia

July 27, 2021

Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) detained a Ukrainian national who is suspected of setting up a bot farm to sell fake online accounts, called bots, to Russian customers. The suspect, a local tech specialist, allegedly used nearly 12,000 SIM cards of Ukrainian and Russian mobile operators to create fake user profiles in social networks, messengers and electronic wallets, …

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US sentences Ukrainian techie to 9 years for stealing $10 million from Microsoft

November 11, 2020

A high-profile criminal case involving a Ukrainian techie and $10 million he stole from tech giant Microsoft is over. A federal district court in Seattle sentenced Volodymyr Kvashuk to nine years in prison, finding him guilty of 18 federal felonies, the US attorney’s office for the Western District of Washington reported on Nov. 9. Kvashuk, 26, …

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Ukrainian-founded startup vanishes after raising millions from top international investors

June 4, 2020

Sixa, an American startup with Ukrainian founders, has disappeared from all radars, raising suspicious about the reality of its business. After injecting millions of US dollars in the venture, investors now doubt that any team or products have remained of this startup. As reported by Telegram channel Russian Venture, Sixa founders stopped contacting its investors, citing German Kaplun of TMT Investments. In mid-2016, this London-based fund with Russian connections invested $300,000 in Sixa at …

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Uber Shuttle operates in Ukraine with multiple violations, local media reports

October 18, 2019

Uber Shuttle operates in Ukraine with multiple violations, a local journalist found. In her article for Ekonomichna Pravda, Iryna Latysh noted the following issues: The van parked at a pedestrian crossing. During a police inspection, turned out that the driver did not have the necessary driving category. Drivers work 10-14 hours a day. Uber Shuttle …

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Ukrainian startup sues Apple over unfair competition

May 10, 2019

A Ukrainian startup has filed a complaint to the European Union’s competition office against U.S. tech giant Apple, a move that has attracted a lot of media scrutiny over the past two weeks. Tech startup Kidslox accuses Apple of abusing its monopoly and “killing the industry” of the parental-control mobile applications, the bread and butter of …

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Court mistake reveals Russia’s largest underground online casino works from Ukraine

February 7, 2019

Russia’s biggest illegal online casino, Azino777, operates out of Ukraine and has managed some of its money flows through a Ukrainian branch of Russia’s bank Sberbank, Russian business media outlet The Bell reported on Feb. 4, referring to decisions by a Ukrainian court. The Bell journalists found a mistake in a document of Kyiv Holosiivskyi District …

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Three Ukrainian indicted in the USA for international cybercrime activities

August 2, 2018

Three Ukrainian cybercriminals have been indicted by the US authorities for criminal hacking, the US Justice Dpt. announced yesterday. Dmytro Fedorov, 44, Fedir Hladyr, 33, and Andrii Kolpakov, 30, are accused of being members of the notorious cybercrime group FIN7, also known as the Carbanak Group and the Navigator Group. “Since at least 2015, FIN7 …

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Two Ukrainians charged in the USA for alleged roles in giant online fraud organization

February 12, 2018

Last week the US Department of Justice announced the indictment of 36 individuals for their alleged roles in the Infraud Organization. This Internet-based cybercriminal enterprise was reportedly created by Svyatoslav Bondarenko, a Ukrainian citizen also knwn as “Obnon,” “Rector,” and “Helkern.” Another Ukrainian, Alexey Klimenko, has also been indicted, as well as people from a variety of other countries.

Police find illegal Bitcoin farm at Ukrainian state institute

August 11, 2017

Ukraine’s National Police have arrested several suspects who were illegally producing bitcoins at a recreation center of a Ukrainian state institute, according to newly released court documents. Police found that 200 computers had been set up in an unused swimming pool at the Paton Electric Welding Institute’s recreation center to generate bitcoins, the world’s most …

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Yandex’s Ukrainian offices searched by security service

May 30, 2017

Two weeks after the Ukrainian authorities banned leading Russian Internet sites as part of sanctions affecting 468 Russian legal entities, Yandex announced that the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) conducted searches at the company’s offices in Kiev and Odessa. Yandex.Ukraine management and employees are accused of having gathered personal data of Ukrainian users and transmitted them to Russian …

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Ukrainian hacker sentenced by US court for “the largest known computer hacking and securities fraud scheme”

May 23, 2017

Yesterday Ukrainian hacker Vadym Iermolovych, 29, was sentenced to 30 months in prison by the US court after he was charged with “conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to commit computer hacking, and aggravated identity theft” last year. In addition to the prison term, Iermolovych was sentenced to three years of supervised release and ordered …

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