Dia in the sights of hackers, alleged anti-mafia dossiers for sale on the dark web: «222 MB archive»

A 222 megabyte archive. Inside, at least according to whoever put it up for sale, there would be part of the information assets of the Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate: operational dossiers, investigative documents, information on 25 organized crime groups, relations with Europol and even internal material that has never been published.

The ad appeared on the dark web in the name of a seller who goes by the name “weykofa”. On Sunday 8 November, at 6.41pm, the alleged violation was relaunched on X by Dark Web Informer, an account specialized in monitoring clandestine online markets. The same account, however, included a crucial caution: the claim remains unverified.

The seller talks about 302 files. The description of the archive, if confirmed, returns the size of the possible target: intelligence information relating to 25 criminal organisations, operational dossiers and investigative documents, correspondence with European institutions and material linked to Europol.

The list also includes photographs of unpublished operations, press releases still under embargo, internal statistics, personnel data and financial documentation.

However, in the material made public, there is no sample of documents legible enough to allow independent verification. It means that today it is not possible to establish whether the archive really exists, whether the files are authentic or whether the seller has assembled documents already publicly available to construct a false data leak.