Italy’s Meloni Says Civil Servants Were Disloyal in Hacking Case

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni addressed a national scandal over the illegal sale of confidential personal data, saying some civil servants acted disloyally in a case that saw data on political and business leaders hacked from national security databases.

Civil servants entrusted with protecting sensitive information on the databases “used their powers to do other things with the data,” Meloni said Wednesday on state Rai television, likening the people involved to burglars who steal valuables and sell them on.