The Ukrainian police detained a 35-year-old man, suspecting him in hacking 5,000 accounts in the international hosting company and using them for cryptocurrency mining. The company’s damage from hacking amounted to more than $ 4.5 million.

According to employees of the cyber police of the National Police of Ukraine (NPU), a 35-year-old man from the Poltava region was looking for vulnerability from various international companies. From at least 2018, he could gain access to servers and more than 5,000 accounts of customers of the company that provides server rental services.

The man is suspected of cryptodjacking – in unauthorized use of someone else’s computer or mining device. Typically, hackers penetrate the systems using malware, which is installed through phishing letters, malicious websites or software vulnerability, and then secretly launches mining scripts.

It is assumed that the attacker changed his place of residence to avoid persecution. The police found out that in recent years he lived in the Poltava, Zaporizhzhya and Dnipropetrovsk regions. During the searches, law enforcement officers seized computers, mobile phones, bank cards and other material evidence from a man. During the preliminary inspection of confiscated materials, it turned out that the suspect created several accounts in hacker forums.

He was charged with unauthorized interference with electronic information and communication networks. The violator faces the maximum punishment in the form of 15 years in prison and a ban on holding certain positions for up to three years. The Ukrainian police said that the pre -trial investigation is ongoing and, if new evidence, the suspect may be charged with additional charges.

In April, the Ukrainian police closed a criminal organization that stole about $ 144.8 million from the inhabitants of Latvia through fake crypto platforms. Earlier, as part of an international operation, Ukrainian law enforcement officers eliminated nine crypto exchangers.