Cubans convicted of robberies through hacking of the EnZona platform

Cuban authorities sanctionedthree citizens after verifying his involvement in more than a dozen robberies carried out by hacking the EnZona platform.

According to a note from the official mediaArtemis Diary, three people were tried and punished, two with high fines, while the main accused was sentenced to four years in prison.

The Prosecutor's Office explained that the case began with a complaint received at the Caimito Police Station, Artemisa, on July 28, 2020, when a person reported the theft of 811 CUC, which at the exchange rate of 1 for 25 represented more than 20 thousand pesos.

That hacked account was anchored to the EnZona application, and the card to which the money was depositedmoney after theft It was from a woman who lived in the province of Camagüey.

Miladys Carmona González, provincial prosecutor of the Department of Criminal Proceedings of the Prosecutor's Office in Artemisa, reported that "when following the trail of the operation, we verified that the money had been transferred to a magnetic card, whose owner resided in Camagüey; therefore, transferred the alleged culprit to the province and secured her with a precautionary measure of Provisional Prison."

He explains that the young woman "had lent her magnetic card to a friend, who, along with another citizen, flouted the requirements of the EnZona platform: they passed themoney to the accused's account and then they withdrew it from the ATM".

At the time of the investigation theaccused of fraud They had stolen between $2,000 and $5,000 CUC.

They also penetrated the applicationHey Cuba, which does Etecsa promotions, where they obtained refills that they then resold.

In total they were11 people hackedin several regions of the country, which recovered their money, said the prosecutor.

He said that this fact shows "the dangerousness and complexity of the crime, the economic impact and the damage caused by circumventing computer systems and trying to discredit virtual payment platforms."

"The Popular Provincial Court of Camagüey sanctioned the main person responsible to four years of deprivation of liberty for the crime of continuous robbery with force," he stressed.

High administrative criminal fines were applied to the other defendants, "taking into account that they recognized the crime, the victims recovered what was defrauded, and that they are very young people."

Carmona González said that based on these crimes ofhackers The island's criminal authorities had to introduce changes to the Penal Code regarding electronic theft and everything related to violations related to computing and communications.

EnZona is an application of the Cuban regime through which users manage all transactions made between natives, cooperatives or private services; as well as business administration and online shopping, from a device.

Since 2019, the Cuban regime announced that the Penal Code would incorporate crimes "related to the use ofCyberspace".