Italian police have smashed a cyber-espionage centre that for years collected sensitive data on politicians, public institutions and administrations, professional studios and top entrepreneurs, sources said Tuesday. The investigation, conducted by the postal police, led to the arrest of two people - a nuclear engineer and his sister.
The arrested pair are residents of London but are domiciled in Rome and are well known in the world of high finance, source said.
Ex-premier Matteo Renzi and European Central Bank President Mario Draghi are among the top figures allegedly spied on by the pair, sources said on Tuesday. The siblings allegedly stored sensitive data taken from public institutions, professional studios and top entrepreneurs on servers seized in the United States, the sources said.
The pair had a database containing 18,327 usernames, 1,793 of them accompanied by a password, and divided into 122 categories tagged 'Nick' indicating the target category (politics, business, etc.) or their initials, police said Tuesday.
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