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Three residents of Drohobych are being accused of unauthorized access to more than 610 000 Roblox accounts and selling them on Russian resources—a criminal group’s activity that was halted in April. While some scammers profit from stealing gaming accounts, other criminals go further: using the same games, Russia is recruiting Ukrainian children for espionage. In May 2025 through April 2026, the suspects managed to obtain data from more than 610 thousand game users. The scheme was organized by a 19-year-old Drohobych resident, who took two 22-year-old acquaintances as partners. The prosecutor’s office has already sent the indictment to court, and all three are currently in custody.
This was reported by the Lviv Regional Prosecutor’s Office. Roles in the group were clearly divided: the organizer assigned tasks to the accomplices, controlled sales via a website and Telegram, paid for servers, and personally checked the value of stolen accounts with a special program. The other two participants acted under his instructions—checking profiles, administering the selling site and Telegram channels, communicating with buyers, and also storing, withdrawing, and laundered funds.
The scheme had several stages. First, the criminals stole session tokens—cookie files that allowed access to other people’s accounts without a password. The obtained data were uploaded to a special program that checked whether the 'keys' still worked and whether they provided access to user pages. If the login was successful, the 'value' of the account was immediately calculated—the criminals were interested in gaming items, rare equipment, and virtual money on the balance.
The participants stored information about the victims’ profiles in separate files—law enforcement found 357 such documents. Accounts with real money or valuable in-game items were sold piece by piece at a fixed price, the rest wholesale or with discounts. Sales occurred exclusively on Russian internet resources, and payments were received to crypto wallets. One account cost about 70 Russian rubles, so selling more than 610 thousand accounts could yield the criminals more than 20 million hryvnias in profit.
The crypto wallet funds that the participants received were laundered—exchanged for hryvnias and transferred to their own accounts. Overall, they managed to 'wash' nearly 2,4 million hryvnias. The criminals’ activity was halted in April of this year.
During searches of the defendants’ residences, computer equipment, storage devices, mobile phones, bank cards, draft notes, and cash in euros and US dollars were seized. Additionally, one participant was found in possession of a cannabis extract intended for personal use.
What the defendants are charged with
The organizer is charged with organizing theft and laundering property obtained by crime, as well as organizing unauthorized interference with information systems that led to a data leak, and unauthorized sale of information with restricted access. The other two participants are charged with theft and laundering of property obtained by crime, unauthorized interference with information systems, and unauthorized sale of information with restricted access. One participant was additionally charged with illegal possession of drugs not intended for sale.
At the prosecutors’ request, all members of the criminal group are in custody. Pre-trial investigation was conducted by the Lviv district police department No. 2 of the Main Directorate of the National Police in Lviv region, with operational support provided by the Security Service of Ukraine in Lviv region. According to Article 62 of the Constitution of Ukraine, a person is considered innocent until proven guilty in a lawful manner and by a court verdict.
Earlier, Informator reported that Russia is recruiting children through Roblox and 'tanks', using game tokens instead of real money, and recruitment often ends with tasks to install GPS beacons on military equipment or to plant explosives. Head of the State Financial Monitoring Service, Filip Pronin, said that through similar 'drop schemes' more than 45 billion hryvnias have passed in less than a year.
We also wrote that MP Vladlen Neklyudov in the Verkhovna Rada urged limiting children's access to Roblox, arguing that it poses risks of violence, gaming addiction, and crime among underage platform users.
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