Alleged hacker attack on Dia denied. Piantedosi: 'There is no emergency'

A series of checks are underway at the Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate into a possible hacker attack that would have affected the structure. At the moment the technicians are at work and there is still no confirmation that there has been a compromise of the systems and the theft of documents.

According to some users on social media, an archive of over 220 megabytes of information is in fact for sale on the darkweb and has been stolen from the databases of the body that investigates organized crime. The person selling them would be a user with the pseudonym 'weykofa'. In the approximately 300 files, according to what is circulating on social media, there is information relating to over twenty organized crime groups, investigative documents, internal statistics, personnel data, financial documents, correspondence with Europol and the EU.

The hacker allegedly demanded a ransom in bitcoin.

At present no hacker attack has occurred on the Dia website. Sources close to the dossier specify this, explaining that according to the checks carried out so far only one acquisition of the website of the Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate has taken place, therefore only public data is involved and no protected data has been exfiltrated.

Piantedosi: 'The meeting on cyber attacks does not mean an ongoing emergency'

Tomorrow's meeting of the National Committee for Public Order and Security to examine the risks associated with cyber attacks and the cyber threat "was convened, it should be underlined, not as something to underline an ongoing emergency". This was stated by the Minister of the Interior Matteo Piantedosi, this morning in Diamante (Cosenza) for the inauguration of a police station. "We will make assessments - he added - on any repercussions on public safety that these episodes are having. In this case, for example, there have been some presences on the dark web of requests for data concerning important personalities such as the Foreign Minister, the Rome prosecutor, our head of the postal police service. So it is right to try to understand what is behind it and above all what repercussions there may be for the safety of people and for the community". "After that - concluded Piantedosi - we will also try to give a contribution of analysis on the reasons for what is happening, what are the situations that could be behind it. Therefore, understand and then, in some way, implement the remedies that need to be prepared".