Overview

• Investigators increasingly favor the hypothesis that a maintenance technician with authorized access extracted the footage, with outside hacking still under review.
• The Polizia Postale seized the entire home surveillance system, now under examination by a court‑appointed expert to reconstruct the breach and identify access times.
• Parallel probes are underway in Rome for unauthorized access to an information system and in Tempio Pausania for unlawful dissemination of explicit images.
• Italy’s data‑protection authority ordered removals and opened its own inquiry, warning of penalties while noting that private messaging channels are difficult to police.
• The clip appeared on an overseas porn site within minutes of acquisition and continues to circulate on Telegram and WhatsApp; the system was about a decade old with simple credentials.