Italy arrests two for hacking into email accounts of ECB's Draghi, former Italy PM Renzi
"There were tens of thousands of email accounts hacked, and among them were accounts belonging to bankers, businessmen and even several cardinals in the Vatican," Roberto Di Legami, director of the specialised cyber police unit that conducted the investigation, told Reuters.
How the information may have been used is still under investigation, he said. It is still not clear exactly how much information was collected and how important it may have been, he said.
Police have sequestered a server in Rome containing thousands of files, but 99 percent of the data was stored in the United States, Di Legami said. The information will be shipped back in coming days but it will take some time before it can be analysed.