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Italy’s political class is caught up in a massive hacking scandal.
An IT consultant, Nunzio Samuele Calamucci, allegedly breached Italy’s Interior Ministry databases on behalf of Equalize, a private investigations company run by a former Italian police officer.
Equalize used a computer virus to break into government databases, prosecutors claim.
In wiretaps, Calamucci, who worked for Equalize, allegedly boasted of having hacked the information of 800,000 people.
Several Italian politicians were among those who were hacked. And agents with Mossad, Israel’s spy agency, allegedly tried to buy information from Equalize.
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