Politicians, entrepreneurs, journalists, celebrities, government and bank employees: Italy is currently being rocked by one of the largest data scandals ever uncovered. “We can expose the whole of Italy,” the Milan-based company Equalize boasted in internal phone calls. As many as 800,000 people were screened to create potentially compromising secret files on them. A search for clues.
The wires converged not far from Milan Cathedral. With a man who you would not suspect is the head of a criminal organization: Carmine Gallo was revered as a ‘super agent’ in the 1990s and made a name for herself with investigations against the Calabrian mafia, the ‘Ndrangheta. Now he is accused of being part of a criminal gang – as director of the private detective agency Equalize, which belongs to a wealthy Milanese entrepreneur with political ambitions and who apparently built secret files on tens of thousands of Italians for years. It is material with the potential for ‘undermining’, Prime Minister Georgia Meloni warned. The customers: diverse, from jealous husbands to vague mafiosi and entrepreneurs to foreign intelligence services. The methods: hackers, bribes and blackmail. Krone+ shows you the hidden world of private cyber mercenaries – which also exist in Austria.
Source: Krone
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