Morbid personal curiosity or a plan with a principal? An answer to this question will be sought in the smartphones, tablets, hard drives and computer devices that were seized in recent days from Vincenzo Coviello, the former employee of Intesa Sanpaolo who from his workplace in Bisceglie spied on thousands of bank movements of politicians, well-known figures from the world of entertainment and sports and even ordinary people .
Meanwhile, Intesa Sanpaolo apologizes and assures: "What happened must never happen again, but there was no problem with IT security ", with respect to which the bank is "in the best international positions".
"A dishonest employee of our bank, with behavior that seriously violated the rules, regulations and internal procedures, consulted data and information regarding some customers in an unjustified manner . The internal control system identified it, we sent a notification to the Privacy Guarantor, we fired the dishonest employee and filed a complaint as an injured party", explains Intesa.
In the next few days, the Bari prosecutor's office will assign the task to technicians to reconstruct the times, methods and types of access to the bank's confidential data, but also any contacts that Coviello may have had before or after each access and to understand whether he actually kept the information collected only for himself, as he said . A version that still needs to be verified and which at the moment does not seem to convince the Bari prosecutor's office, which is investigating the former bank employee for unauthorized access to computer systems and attempted procurement of information concerning state security.
The prosecution believes it is likely that Coviello acted in conjunction with a principal and recipient of confidential information that, "in the political, internal or international interest of the State, had to remain secret" . Coviello allegedly made 6,637 unauthorized accesses between February 2022 and April 2024 , viewing the bank movements of : among them The others are .
