Man, 24, arrested for hacking justice ministry

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 2 - Italian police on Wednesday arrested a 24-year-old Italian man on suspicion of hacking the justice ministry in Rome.
    The alleged hacker, who was notified of an arrest by the postal police at the end of an investigation coordinated by the National Anti-Mafia Directorate and the computer crime pool of the Naples Prosecutor's Office, "repeatedly entered the computer systems of the Ministry of Justice and other important companies and had the skills to block them," police said.
    The alleged hacker, an IT employee, also managed to acquire investigation files covered by judicial secrecy, they said.
    The investigation lasted several years and involved several prosecutors' offices.
    Among the computer systems violated were those of the Guardia di Finanza finance guard tax police, telecoms company TIM and European spaceflight services company Telespazio.
    National Anti-Mafia and Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor Giovanni Melillo said the police had "thwarted a serious threat to security" by nabbing the man, originally from Gela in Sicily but working in Rome. (ANSA).