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Rome Prosecutor Opens Probe Into Alleged Illegal Access at Italy’s Privacy Authority

The step follows reports that external individuals spent a holiday night inside the Garante’s offices to hunt for a leak.

Overview

  • Prosecutor Giuseppe De Falco has acquired documents and a list of potentially informed persons under the hypothesis of unlawful access to a computer system (article 615-ter).
  • Report (Rai 3) alleges that some members of the collegio let outsiders into the Authority’s Rome headquarters on November 1, where they remained overnight for alleged sweeps and checks.
  • The program reports suspicions of attempts to reach servers and employee data, with no public confirmation to date of any successful breach.
  • On November 4, then–secretary general Fanizza asked security director Cosimo Comella to obtain all employee emails since March 2001 plus VPN logs and shared folders, a request Comella rejected as contrary to the Authority’s own rules.
  • The Fisac-CGIL union says staff have voted to demand the collegio’s resignation and is seeking details on who entered the offices, under what authority, and for what purpose.