They extracted confidential information on footballers, entrepreneurs, people in the entertainment industry, singers and actors from databases used by the police, information which they then resold in exchange for money to certain agencies.
This was announced today in Naples by Prosecutor Nicola Gratteri during a press conference called to illustrate the police operation that led to the dismantling of a criminal organization.
Over the course of two years, two rogue agents accessed confidential databases 730,000 times —one 600,000, the other 130,000—neither of which were justified by operational needs. It was precisely from this "massive access," explained Vincenzo Piscitelli, coordinator of the Naples Prosecutor's Office's cybercrime pool, that the investigation began.
The agents who acted in exchange for money—"there was a price list," the prosecutor explained—were representatives of the police force, who carried out unauthorized access using their passwords.
(Unioneonline)
