Vatican and Israel implicated in Italian hacking scandal, leaked files reveal – POLITICO

It is likely that other countries will also be involved in the Italian investigation.

Calamucci, who previously bragged about breaking into the Pentagon with the hacktivist collective Anonymous, often referred to dozens of hackers working for him in Colchester, England. According to leaked documents, the company also used servers in the United States and Lithuania, where it felt less vulnerable.

According to reports in Italian media, prosecutors have ordered the seizure of a server in Lithuania and are considering whether to send a corresponding request to investigators in the United Kingdom.

Four suspects currently under house arrest in connection with the case attended a hearing in Milan on Thursday but refused to answer the judge's questions.

Antonia Augimeri and Paolo Simonetti, lawyers for former police detective Carmine Gallo, who is a partner at Equalize, and IT consultant Calamucci, said Gallo had planned to resist the charges but could only then have a “fruitful” discussion with investigators If he did this he would have seen all the legal documents.

Calamucci is “ready to clarify his position” once a full picture of the investigation is available, the lawyers said. Some of the allegations against him “cannot be empirically proven,” the lawyers added.