In Mariupol, the attacker for 6 years without a license broadcast the local residents of the Internet using their own radio frequency towers. According to the press service of the police of Donetsk region, as a result of a complex of actions by representatives of the cyberpolicy, local police and employees of the Ukrainian State Center of Radio Frequencies, the underground provider was exposed. Material evidence. Now the attacker is informed about the suspicion of committing 18 such facts.

Information that someone unauthorizedly interferes with the radio network, entered the police from an Internet provider in March this year. It was from this time that the documentation of the illegal activity began. Representatives of the Ukrainian State Center for Radio Frequencies were connected to the work, since this was the first time in the Donetsk region when the police were engaged in disclosing this type of crime.

"It was established that a local resident created his own network through which the transfer of the Internet to the territory covered by the registered providers. As a rule, these were approximate villages and settlements, such as Talakovka, Komunaso. The man installed on the roofs, both his home and other skyscrapers, more than 15 towers that were able to broadcast wy-fay for a distance of about 15 kilometers, "the deputy head of the department - head of the Donetsk department of cyberpolitics of the Department of Cyber ??Police of the National Police of Ukraine Pavel Zion.

The client base was large enough, even when local providers began to gradually include these settlements, the attacker's services were used by about 70 residents who paid a monthly fee from 100 to 150 hryvnia.

"Moreover, the man fenced off part of the staircase on the first floor of his house, and arranged on the self-occupied territory server room with a workplace. A special program that allowed you to control the signal at a distance was installed on your home computer, "the police said..

As for the identity of the radio amateur, this is the Mariupol man of 1975, who had not previously come to the attention of law enforcement agencies. He has a proper education and explains that he has been fond of this direction for several decades. I added new ones to basic knowledge each time, talking with relevant specialists, I did not yet understand that this could be a good profit and be a source of income for his entire family.

"Now the technology is withdrawn, the rigs are dismantled. On this fact, a pre-trial investigation on. 1 st. 361 "Illegal interference in the operation of electronic computers (computers), automated systems, computer networks or telecommunications networks" of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The sanction of the article provides for a fine of up to 3 years' imprisonment, "the siloviki.

The pre-trial investigation continues.

"I want to note that the Ukrainian Center for Radio Frequencies had full cooperation in the disclosure of this crime, since in the Donetsk region there were no precedents for documenting such types of violations," concluded Pavel Zion.