{"id":499901,"date":"2025-12-03T15:07:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T12:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=499901"},"modified":"2025-12-03T16:32:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T13:32:17","slug":"teen-collected-card-details-and-crypto-wallets-interior-ministry-detains-17-year-old-hacker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/teen-collected-card-details-and-crypto-wallets-interior-ministry-detains-17-year-old-hacker","title":{"rendered":"Teen Collected Card Details and Crypto Wallets: Interior Ministry Detains 17-Year-Old \u201cHacker\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Interior Ministry reported the detention of a 16-year-old resident of Brest suspected of using malicious software.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry said that the college student distributed a program through a phishing website styled as a housing-booking service. The site misled users and enabled the launch of a virus on their devices. This provided unauthorized access to computer systems and allowed the copying of confidential information, including data on cryptocurrency wallets, bank-card details, and account and personal information.<\/p>\n<p>He then sold the obtained data on the dark web. According to preliminary estimates, he managed to steal data from more than a thousand citizens of CIS and European countries.<\/p>\n<p>A criminal case has been opened on charges of developing, using, distributing, or selling malicious computer programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Interior Ministry reported the detention of a 16-year-old resident of Brest suspected of using malicious software. The ministry said that the college student distributed a program through a phishing website styled as a housing-booking service. The site misled users and enabled the launch of a virus on their devices. This provided unauthorized access to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":499900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/69303beb434e1.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Teen Collected Card Details and Crypto Wallets: Interior Ministry Detains 17-Year-Old \u201cHacker\u201d"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}