Ukrainian hacker group Hackyourmom was able to locate a Russian military base near occupied Melitopol using fake social media accounts posing as attractive girls. This was told to the Financial Times by Nikita Knysh, an IT entrepreneur and founder of a hacker group.

Hackers met Russian soldiers on social networks and asked them to send photos, from which they calculated the location of the military base. The hackers passed the information they received to the Ukrainian military. According to Knysh, a few days later the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked the Russian base.

Before the war, 30-year-old Knysh headed the Kharkiv-based cybersecurity company HackControl. Immediately after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, he proposed his candidacy to the Kharkov office of the SBU, but was refused. After that, the IT specialist decided to found a hacker group to wage a cyber war against Russia.

The hacker claims that his group has hacked into thousands of CCTV cameras in Belarus and the Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine. She developed a program to help separate the movements of ordinary people from the movements of the military, and also hacked into Russian TV channels to show reports of civilians killed in Ukraine. The Financial Times notes that the publication was only partially able to verify the information that Knysh spoke about.