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06 August 2021

The employee of the Lazio Region of Frosinone, holder of the account hacked by the hackers who attacked the regional data processing center,

was heard as a

.

The

agents

carried out the investigation in the offices of

(National Cybercrime Center for the Protection of Critical Infrastructures) of the Postal Police investigating computer intrusion, coordinated by the Rome prosecutor's office. The prosecutors of the cybercrime and anti-terrorism pool are investigating the offensive, coordinated by the chief prosecutor Michele Prestipino and the deputy prosecutor Angelantonio Racanelli. In the file, against unknown persons, the crimes hypothesized are those of unauthorized access to the computer system, attempted extortion and damage to the computer system, with the aggravating circumstance of the purposes of terrorism.

Meanwhile, the investigations that the Postal Police are carrying out in collaboration with Europol and the FBI and which aim to clarify the origin and verify any similarities with attacks with cryptolocker ransomware that took place in Italy and also abroad. On Thursday, the

were extracted

from the servers that were blocked after the hacker attack.

Nicola, 61, the

from which the intrusion of hackers would have occurred, in an interview with Corriere della Sera he had declared: "Now they have marginalized me" and "In these hours I have really read everything: Russian hackers, Chinese. Boh! But so far I have not not even the postal police came to question me. A technician from the Ced came in on Monday, took apart the computer - he says - and took it away. From that moment on it was dark. And I still can't understand how it could have happened. why me".