What do we know about the data breach at Intesa Sanpaolo?
MILAN (Reuters) -Prosecutors in the southern Italian city of Bari are investigating an alleged data breach at the country's biggest bank Intesa Sanpaolo, in which Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's account may have been accessed. An Intesa employee at a branch in the small town of Bitonto, close to Bari in the Puglia region, is alleged to have accessed the current account data of around 3,500 customers, including many high profile figures such as Meloni and her predecessor Mario Draghi between February 2022 and April 2024. The employee worked in Intesa's agricultural business, an industry where many companies are so small, often a single-person enterprise, that assessing their credit standing means looking at account data.