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08 October 2018 The author of almost 70 attacks and violations of Italian and foreign institutional sites has been identified, including that of the American space agency, NASA: it is a 25 year old from Salò, in the Brescia area, who has already admitted his responsibility. The investigators of the Postal and Communications Police carried out a computer search ordered by the Public Prosecutor of Brescia against him.

The man is held responsible for the violation of sixty institutional sites of territorial entities (including those of the Penitentiary Police, some provinces of Tuscany and RAI), as well as eight domains connected to NASA, whose home page was replaced by the defacement technique in 2013. Fatal was the claim of their deeds on the main social networks as belonging to the so-called "Master Italian Hackers Team" crew, a community already known for having perpetrated numerous attacks on various institutional websites. But it is only after having violated the security systems of the domains connected to NASA that the fame of the crew reached international popularity, so much so as to attract the attention of the men of Cnaipic (National Anti-Crime Center for the Protection of Critical Infrastructures) to its members, organ of the Postal and Communications Police Service, who had launched an investigation aimed at identifying the author of the claim. The investigations of the Postal Police resulted in a search that led to the seizure of IT devices whose content made it possible to acquire important elements. Pressed by the investigators and the evidence of the elements acquired, the young man admitted his responsibilities to the Postal investigators. The investigation, directed by the Prosecutor of the Republic of Brescia, thanks to the coordination of the Postal and Communications Police Service of Rome, allowed the investigators of the Postal and Communications Police of Milan to identify the author of the attack against NASA and the acquisition of further elements that could be attributed to the violation of at least 60 other institutional sites in the country. In the disputes raised against him, ZR could only admit his responsibilities.

The investigations, conducted by the Lombardy Postal and Communications Police Department, stemmed from the web monitoring with which the CNAIPIC of the Postal and Communications Police Service identified the aforementioned collective, which had reached international popularity precisely with the claim of intrusions in security systems of the violated sites, whose home page was replaced by the "defacement" technique.