NSA broke into Google and Yahoo clouds through project MUSCULAR
October 30, 2013
Grazed from WashingtonPost. Author: Editorial Staff.
The National Security Agency broke into secure networks owned by Google and Yahoo, which gave the US spy agency “back-door access” to hundreds of millions of private records, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.
The report, based on documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, said the NSA infiltrated links connecting data centers of the two web giants around the world, yielding more than 181 million records over a 30-day period earlier this year…
The records — some of which belonged to US citizens — included metadata, as well as text, audio and video, The Post said. Codenamed MUSCULAR, the project suggests the NSA (alongside its British counterpart the GCHQ) has turned its attention to major American corporations…
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