The Milan prosecutor’s office in Italy is investigating the illegal access to thousands of personal details and information contained in data banks. The prosecutor of Milan, Francesco De Tomasi, underlined that this is an “illegal file”, the people responsible for which “it is not too much to say, that they are a threat to the democracy of the country” and that they “wanted to blackmail the state institutions and the citizens ».

According to the information so far, “the masterminds” of this illegal activity had tried to collect, among others, information concerning the president of the Italian senate, Ignazio La Russa and his son, Geronimo, while they allegedly also sent emails, to the email address of the Italian president of the republic, Sergio Mattarella. Investigations are underway to determine whether they were able to “hack” the specific email address. They were also active in the field of industrial espionage

So far, as it has been leaked, more than fifty people are allegedly involved in this particular case: mainly police officers, “hackers” and IT consultants. Their “clients” allegedly included well-known Italian companies, while the data bank of the Italian police forces and the finance ministry, as well as the computer files of several journalists, were breached, among others.

It is, in fact, a huge “black market” of classified information which, according to the prosecutors, in the last two years brought profits of hundreds of thousands of euros to the members of this spiral.

Four people are under house arrest. Among them the IT consultant, Nuncio Samuele Calamucci and the experienced policeman Carmine Gallo, sixty-five years old, who had dealt – among others – with the case of the murder of Maurizio Gucci.

According to the Milan newspaper, Corriere della Sera, finally, this illegal organization allegedly managed to enter the database of the Italian Ministry of the Interior. At the initiative of the Minister of the Interior of the Meloni government, Matteo Piandendozzi, an investigation is being carried out to ascertain whether, in fact, data was removed and how it might have been used.