'Dossier gang also spied on magistrates and prefects'

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 29 - A cyber snooping gang that allegedly complied secret dossiers on commission on top business, political and entertainment figures also spied on magistrates and prefects, according to court papers released Tuesday.
    In a wiretapped conversation in January 2023, some alleged members of the dossier gang, including hackers Giulio Cornelli and Nunzio Calamucci, "discuss the implementation of the D. B.", or "the internal archive of the group also containing police information", with the "data of all the Prefects and Magistrates", said a report from the Carabinieri of the Investigative Unit of Varese.
    The system is "able to detect the data present in specific Excel files" and "'fishes' for the data", the report said.
    In the wiretap, the interlocutors search for a series of names of magistrates or former magistrates, in particular from the Milan Public Prosecutor's Office. (ANSA).