Hacking Team boss: we sold to Ethiopia but ‘we’re the good guys’

Attack that revealed data exposing deals with dictatorships was on a 'governmental level' and 'planned for months', says David Vincenzetti in first statement

The founder of cybersecurity firm Hacking Team has finally spoken out over the attack that saw 400GB of its data dumped on the internet, insisting: "We're the good guys".

David Vincenzetti, 47, founder of the Milan-based company, told Italian newspaper La Stampa that the cyber attack - which saw the code for companies hacking tools and its email archive published online - was not enabled by poor security or weak passwords and that it could have only been an organisation "at the governmental level".