Snooping gang 'had data on national cybercrime centre'

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 30 - A Milan-based snooping gang accused of compiling dossiers on commission by harvesting data from highly sensitive national databases allegedly had access to the activities of the National cybercrime centre for the protection of critical infrastructures of the postal police, investigative sources said Wednesday.
    The gang investigated by the Milanese anti-mafia investigative directorate DDA and by the National anti-mafia and anti-terror directorate DNA, allegedly led by ex supercop Carmine Gallo and hacker Nunzio Calamucci, both under house arrest, had "received information that allegedly concerned an activity" of the centre, the sources noted.
    In wiretaps, Calamucci said he had contacts at the National cybersecurity agency ACN.
    "We were inside the unit …. the one now called ACN", he is wiretapped as saying.
    The Milan probe into illegal hacking and snooping on personal police and interior ministry files, among others, is believed to involve more than 800,000 victims, according to investigative sources.
    The hacking gang, which allegedly revolved around Enrico Pazzali's Equalize investigative company, is suspected of targeting mainly business figures but also high-ranking politicians including President Sergio Mattarella, police have said. (ANSA).