[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-italy-blames-pro-russian-hackers-for-tajani-data-leak":10,"sections":41},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":30,"tags":31,"sources":36,"feedback":40,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":40,"total_tokens":40},12577,"italy-blames-pro-russian-hackers-for-tajani-data-leak","Italy Blames Pro-Russian Hackers for Tajani Data Leak","Meloni blames pro-Russian hackers after the foreign minister's personal data appeared on the dark web, though the public details are thin.","Italy's government says pro-Russian hackers put Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani's personal data on the dark web, and the prime minister is treating the episode as a serious security concern.\n\nGiorgia Meloni made the attribution in a statement carried by the news agency ANSA on Saturday. She described the sale of data belonging to officials as a grave concern. Tajani said on X that the hackers had been spreading his data for days, so the material was circulating well before the government spoke publicly. (The dark web is the part of the internet reachable only through special software, where stolen data is often traded.)\n\nThe source gives little beyond that. It does not say what kind of personal data was exposed, how the hackers obtained it, which group is responsible, or what evidence links the leak to Russia. For now, the attribution rests on the government's word.\n\nThat gap matters because \"pro-Russian hackers\" describes a loose set of activist groups, not one actor. Such groups have been tied to attacks on European government websites, typically denial-of-service floods that knock a site offline for a few hours. Exposing a named minister's personal details is a different tactic. It targets a person rather than a server, and unlike a downed website, leaked data cannot be restored once it is out.\n\nThe open question is whether Rome will name a group or publish evidence for the Russia link, which would show whether this is activist noise or something more organized.","[\"italy\",\"data-leak\",\"pro-russian-hackers\",\"dark-web\"]","2026-11-08T15:24:01.000Z","2026-11-08T16:23:34.075Z","2026-11-08T16:23:36.650Z","published",null,[24],{"id":25,"reviewer":26,"round":27,"reason":28,"status":29},"editor-r1","editor",1,"The source says Meloni's statement was carried by ANSA 'on Saturday', but the draft states 'November 7', a date the source doesn't give and which falls on a Friday in 2025, so remove or verify it; also stop presenting the source's paraphrase 'officials' data' as Meloni's own phrasing and build an inference on it, and drop the reference to 'the same listings', which the article never introduces.","resolved","security",[32,33,34,35],"italy","data-leak","pro-russian-hackers","dark-web",[37],{"name":38,"url":39},"The Next Web","https:\u002F\u002Fthenextweb.com\u002Fnews\u002Fitaly-tajani-personal-data-pro-russian-hackers",0,{"sections":42},[43,48,51,56,61,66,71,76,81,86,91,96,101,106],{"name":44,"slug":45,"count":46,"latest_published_at":47},"AI","ai",7110,"2026-11-08T14:34:09.000Z",{"name":49,"slug":30,"count":50,"latest_published_at":18},"Security",1099,{"name":52,"slug":53,"count":54,"latest_published_at":55},"Deals","deals",620,"2026-11-08T08:00:00.000Z",{"name":57,"slug":58,"count":59,"latest_published_at":60},"Policy","policy",604,"2026-11-07T15:48:26.000Z",{"name":62,"slug":63,"count":64,"latest_published_at":65},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",336,"2026-11-08T21:00:00.000Z",{"name":67,"slug":68,"count":69,"latest_published_at":70},"Hardware","hardware",316,"2026-11-08T14:36:39.000Z",{"name":72,"slug":73,"count":74,"latest_published_at":75},"Science","science",222,"2026-11-07T16:19:17.000Z",{"name":77,"slug":78,"count":79,"latest_published_at":80},"Software","software",154,"2026-11-08T15:42:52.000Z",{"name":82,"slug":83,"count":84,"latest_published_at":85},"Startups","startups",150,"2026-11-06T16:50:01.000Z",{"name":87,"slug":88,"count":89,"latest_published_at":90},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",125,"2026-11-06T22:15:59.000Z",{"name":92,"slug":93,"count":94,"latest_published_at":95},"General","general",111,"2026-11-08T21:27:29.000Z",{"name":97,"slug":98,"count":99,"latest_published_at":100},"Gaming","gaming",94,"2026-11-08T20:52:05.000Z",{"name":102,"slug":103,"count":104,"latest_published_at":105},"Reviews","reviews",38,"2026-10-20T12:00:00.000Z",{"name":107,"slug":108,"count":109,"latest_published_at":110},"How-To","how-to",8,"2026-10-05T09:00:00.000Z"]