Overview
- Spanish police detained a 22-year-old identified by Argentine investigators as M. E.T. P., known online as “Gov.eth,” and seized two phones and two computers for forensic review.
- Argentine officers say the arrest resulted from the consolidated 'DICTADORES' megacase, which produced dozens of raids and earlier arrests connected to an international cybercriminal network.
- Investigators attribute a series of intrusions between 2024 and 2026 to the alias, targeting state registries and media in Argentina and other countries and including the April 2025 defacement of Perfil that published President Javier Milei’s DNI.
- Authorities say their attribution relied on blockchain analysis and techniques authorized under Law 27.319 to tie the alias to a real person and to provide evidence used by Spain to execute the search.
- Prosecutors will now analyze the seized devices to confirm the scope of data theft, the role of Telegram channels and bots in selling stolen records, and to pursue international evidence-sharing and charges.