Reconstruction of the ‘hacking’: the Senate now says that the offices dismissed did not access the profiles of the senators | Spain

Several senators left the Senate surprised on Wednesday afternoon before the news he had just jump. The upper house table had dismissed minutes before two eventual workers of the housecomputer scientists, for having accessed without authorization to digital profiles and emails of several senators. This was confirmed by the services of the Senate in a first statement issued yesterday. Two members of the Information Technology Department had made improper accesses – for reasons outside their professionals -, to “the portfirmas of members of the Senate table, senators, and various positions and members of the Chamber staff, as well as the discharge of documents contained in them, including personal nature,” indicated the press release. « Will I be one of them? » One of the parliamentarians wondered on the ladder shaking his computer. « I have documents from the Investigation Commission! » He added restless before leaving the majestic building around eight in the afternoon, three hours after the plenary ended in which he had approved A fourth Investigation Commission, is on the blackout.

Another unheard of, the hacking Internal to his lordships began to comment among the halls of the hemicycle. The Senate table met extraordinarily after the plenary, in an appoint, in which he realized what happened. With the finding of the facts, the governing body of the Upper House unanimously approved, with four votes in favor of the PP and three of the PSOE (which make up the table) to fire the marriage « for very serious disciplinary offense. »

This Thursday, a day later, the official story of the events has changed. First, and together with the hemicycle, the president of the Senate, the popular Pedro Rollán, has given his explanation about the motivation of the hacking: The dismissed marriage sought information about a selection process. « In a promotion process to be able to opt for an official’s place, they have accessed folders of personal interest in the promotion, » he said. And has contributed more data. « These two workers, at the time they were aware of a first proposal that consisted of a termination of the three months of employment and salary, presented an allegation. In which they shared that there were more workers in the computer department that could have accessed files from their lordships. In no case, that is, it has been possible to verify. But by jealous and prudence Added. Although the Socialists threw the merit of the case to the Public Ministry yesterday. Rollán has completed his statements to the media referring to a press release that the services of the upper house have subsequently disseminated, after 15.30 in the afternoon.

The relationship they make of the most prominent facts is as follows: “In October 2024, the control systems of the Upper Chamber have knowledge of the access of two people from the Directorate of Information and Communications Technologies, to specific information on the internal and selective promotion processes of labor personnel through the electronic portfirms of high positions of the General Secretariat, in no case of senators. All accesses are of an administrative nature for the benefit of their possible promotion. No political interest.

But this version does not fit the first statement sent on Wednesday, in which they assured that the digital ones of the senators had been affected. In fact, a list of affected names, such as that of the socialist Guillermo Fernández Vara, was distributed to the Members. Senate services are justified in today’s note, like this: “The list of senators that appear in the file ‘affected’ to which it has been made in some information, was provided by one of those affected as allegation in its defense, to justify that the access of officials to applications and portfirms solve the usual incidents. ”

The PSOE distrusts

In the dome of the socialist group they doubt that the selection process is the reason for unauthorized access, since some of the affected senators did not have data related to it, they highlight. « He does not believe it. And they continue to sow suspicions about a possible « espionage. » Nor do they understand why the Upper House, chaired by the PP with an absolute majority, has not revealed the reasons for the disciplinary file so far. « Until yesterday, May 21, the file was reserved, » replies the Senate in its statement.

The PSOE has presented a letter in which it requests more information and the detailed content of the disciplinary file. The socialist spokesman in the Senate, Juan Espadas, has criticized in an interview in TVE that the events have been « hidden for months » and highlights that « you wanted to tiptoe » by the presidency of the Upper House « on this issue. »