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.
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