A suspected gang of hackers who
snooped on business and other figures in a huge operation
involving stealing confidential data from police data bases also
had contacts with Italy's mafias and the secret services, an
anti-mafia prosecutor said Sunday.
The alleged criminal association, at the center of the Milan
investigation into the dossiers, enjoyed "high-level support, in
various environments, including that of mafia crime and that of
the secret services, even foreign ones" and the suspects "often
promise and boast of being able to intervene in investigations
and trials", said the prosecutor of the Milanese anti-mafia
investigative directorate DDA, Francesco De Tommasi.
He said the group linked to the Equalize company has a "cluster"
structure where each "component" and "collaborator" in turn has
"contacts in the police force and in other public
administrations" with which to "illegally obtain data".
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