“Three people have been charged with hacking into the private email account of former head of the Prime Minister’s Chancellery Michał Dworczyk,” Rzeczpospolita reports. According to the newspaper, the three suspects accessed the minister’s email in June 2021 using passwords found on the internet.
As the newspaper recalls, in June 2021 messages stolen from Michał Dworczyk’s private email The website “Poufna Rozmowa” began publishing in the Telegram messenger. She was this correspondence, among others with politicians, including those surrounding Prime Minister Morawiecki.
“Rzeczpospolita” emphasizes that three suspects arrived at the minister’s email in June 2021, but at the time the stolen content of the mailbox had already appeared on Telegram for several days. “They are not the authors of the theft,” the newspaper notes.
According to her information, he was the first to admit that he had accessed Dworczyk’s email using stolen logins and passwords out of curiosity to see if the access data that had appeared on one of the hacker forums would work. The second suspect reportedly testified that he did not remember the events covered by the accusation, and the third did not confess. According to “Rz”‘s findings, were indicted two years ago, since then the Public Prosecutor’s Office has not been able to locate other people who accessed the minister’s mailbox.
The newspaper – citing the Warsaw District Prosecutor’s Office – writes that there is no evidence that the suspects knew each other. There was no evidence that any of them used the email box or the correspondence stored there to hack into it. It was also not proven that they passed on the information from this box to anyone. The charge they heard is about “obtaining data that allows unauthorized access to information stored in the email IT system”.
According to “Rzeczpospolita”, it appears that the three suspects only used access passwords that appeared on the Internet, they were not the instigators of the robbery. The newspaper recalls that logins and passwords for email boxes, including those of Dworczyk and his interlocutors, appeared on the internet in February 2021 as a result of a major leak of this data.
