Overview
- The Procura di Milano, working with the national anti-mafia and anti-terror office, carried out domiciliary and electronic searches and seized devices as part of a criminal inquiry into alleged access to magistrates’ computers.
- Investigators say the intrusions are concentrated in the Turin judicial district and that a ministry technician from that district is under formal investigation.
- Preliminary findings indicate the breaches were carried out by exploiting administrator-level credentials that came from service contracts the Ministry of Justice had with third-party IT firms.
- Forensic analyses of the seized equipment are ongoing and police digital forensics are examining logs and devices to establish who used the credentials and what data was accessed.
- So far there is no evidence pointing to direct involvement by Ministry of Justice officials at Via Arenula and investigators stress searches were conducted with respect for defense guarantees.