Since 2017, the citizens of the city of Lipetsk can pay for travel in transport using special electronic travel cards, the balance of which must be regularly replenished.

However, the 22-year-old hacker managed to bypass the system and recorded the transport cards to unlimited.

The young man managed to create a virtual card account, which was recognized by the bus validators and accepted as a real payment. He sold unlimited cards to four residents for a thousand rubles ($ 16) each.

According to owners of unlimited cards, they didn't suspect that the young man carried out illegal manipulations.

The truth came out when one of the buyers appealed to the transport company with complaints about the failure, the validator stopped reading the card. Managers found that the card did not appear in the database, the balance was not replenished for a long time, but at the same time, the owner of the card actively traveled in public transport. After that, the employees of the transport company appealed to the police.

It is worth noting that the transport company lost about 11 thousand rubles.

The criminal case was opened under two articles: fraud and illegal access to computer information.