{"id":36951,"date":"2021-02-24T12:35:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T10:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=36951"},"modified":"2025-08-29T08:57:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T05:57:32","slug":"sbu-identifies-suspects-in-hacks-of-officials-accounts-payments-were-received-in-cryptocurrency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/sbu-identifies-suspects-in-hacks-of-officials-accounts-payments-were-received-in-cryptocurrency\/","title":{"rendered":"SBU identifies suspects in hacks of officials&#8217; accounts; payments were received in cryptocurrency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has disrupted the activities of hackers suspected of breaching messaging apps, social-media accounts and email inboxes.\u00a0<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">According to the SBU, <\/span><a href=\\\"https:\/\/ssu.gov.ua\/novyny\/na-kyivshchyni-sbu-prypynyla-diialnist-khakeriv-yaki-na-zamovlennia-zlamuvaly-profili-u-sotsmerezhakh-ta-mesendzhery-korystuvachiv-video\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener\\\"><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">said the SBU<\/span><\/a><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">, the perpetrators gained access to the messaging apps and social-media accounts of several Kyiv Oblast officials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">For their services, the hackers accepted payment in cryptocurrency or to electronic wallets of systems banned in Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">During searches, law enforcement seized computers and bank cards and obtained access to the software used to breach accounts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Earlier, the SBU disclosed a group of hackers suspected of stealing funds from bank accounts. They transferred money into cryptocurrencies or to other accounts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full feed, <a href=\\\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has disrupted the activities of hackers suspected of breaching messaging apps, social-media accounts and email inboxes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154,16],"class_list":["post-36951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-ukraine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"8","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36953,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36951\/revisions\/36953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}