Several senators left the Senate surprised on Wednesday afternoon before the news he had just jump. The table of the Upper House there were, computer 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 undue 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 download of documents contained in them, including personal nature,” said the press release.
This Thursday, a day later, both the president of the Senate, the popular Pedro Rollán, and the services of the institution, of an absolute majority of the PP, have affirmed that the reason for the hacking It is because they were looking for information for “a promotion process to be able to opt for an official’s place” and that is why “they have accessed folders of personal interest in the promotion.” But, on the other hand, they have changed the official version by ensuring, in another statement sent on Thursday afternoon, that the computer had not intervened with senators. The letter of dismissal of one of the workers, which the country has accessed, incorporates as a reason for the labor cessation precisely that fact.
“The following are verified as proven facts: 1º.-Improper Accesses, that is, for reasons beyond their work benefit, from JAR, from the IP address of your computer and through users Adminders y Adminpffffffffffffffffffffill -that he had due to his job-to the portfirmas of certain workers, officials and positions of the General Secretariat of the Senate -Ante them, members of the table, various senators and the major lawyer; accesses that occurred since March 2024 and through which numerous documents of documents were made, including some personal nature. “
The dismissal was addressed at an extraordinary meeting of the Senate table on the afternoon of Wednesday after the plenary. The appointment was scheduled since Friday to deal with the problem of an open disciplinary file for two workers, JAR YA NMG Once 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 say goodbye to the marriage “for very serious disciplinary offense”, as they exposed the services of the Upper House in their first statement.
Next to the hemicycle, the president of the Senate has moved more data on Thursday. “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. 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, in which access to profiles of the senators was denied.
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. Nor with the content of the dismissal letter. 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.” To the Socialists have joined Esquerra, who have also sent another request for more information to the presidency of the Senate.
