Sara Guglielmetti Suspected hacker attack on the DIA. Investigations are currently underway into a cyberattack on the Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate. The theft of over 300 files is suspected. Details.
Suspected hacker attack on the DIA: hypothesis of the theft of over 300 files
There was an alleged hacker attack on the DIA , a data theft, with over 300 files that were stolen from the archives of the Anti-Mafia Investigative Directorate and then put up for sale on the dark web.
The alleged data theft, however, has not been confirmed by authorities. The data is being sold by a user named ' weykofa ', who asks for payment in bitcoin and Monero, as shown by social media posts. The dark web account informer on X reports that the 302 files reported include intelligence on 25 organized crime groups, operational dossiers and investigation logs, intelligence related to Europol and EU correspondence, embargoed press releases and internal statistics, previously unpublished photographs of raids, personnel records, and financial documents.
All checks are underway.
Suspected hacker attack on the DIA: investigation underway
As we've just seen, the alarm has been raised over an alleged hacker attack on the DIA, the Anti-Mafia Investigative Directorate. Immediately after the news broke, all the necessary investigations began, and according to ANSA : " To date, no hacker attack has occurred on the DIA website.
Sources familiar with the matter have clarified this, explaining that according to the checks carried out so far, only the Anti-Mafia Investigative Directorate's website has been acquired, meaning only public data has been involved and no protected data has been exfiltrated. It should be remembered that, according to some social media users, an archive of over 220 megabytes of information stolen from the DIA databases is for sale on the dark web. The seller is said to be a user with the pseudonym 'weykofa'. However, this hacker attack , as just mentioned, never occurred.