American and British spies hacked into the internal computer network of the largest manufacturer of SIM cards in the world, stealing encryption keys used to protect the privacy of cellphone communications across the globe, according to top-secret documents provided to The Intercept by National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The hack was perpetrated by a joint unit consisting of operatives from the NSA and its British counterpart Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ.
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Monday, March 9, 2015
The Great SIM Heist: How Spies Stole the Keys to the Encryption Castle
Click here to access article by Jeremy Scahill and Josh Begley from The Intercept.