Overview
- Ukrainian cyber police in Lviv arrested three suspects and carried out ten searches that seized about $35,000 in cash plus dozens of phones and computers.
- Investigators say the group scanned more than 610,000 Roblox profiles between October 2025 and January 2026 to find accounts loaded with Robux or rare items.
- The scheme allegedly used info‑stealing malware posed as game add‑ons to harvest logins and then relied on stolen session cookies to enter accounts without passwords.
- Officers found records for 357 high‑value profiles, and authorities report the accounts were sold on Russian platforms and in closed forums with payments routed to cryptocurrency wallets, yielding about $225,000 by early estimates.
- Prosecutors charged the trio with theft and unauthorized interference under Ukraine’s criminal code, which can mean up to 15 years in prison, and the investigation now seeks more accomplices and victims.