Showing posts with label NSA hacked Mexican president's email. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NSA hacked Mexican president's email. Show all posts
Monday, October 21, 2013
NSA hacked Mexican president's email, according to latest leaks
The United States has for years
carried out extensive surveillance and eavesdropping operations
targeting Mexico's government, according to new evidence obtained by Spiegel Online.
The German publication says its information comes directly from
classified intelligence leaked by Edward Snowden. Chief among the
allegations is that the NSA successfully infiltrated the public email
account of Mexico's former president, Felipe Calderon.
Once the agency gained access, according to Spiegel,
a top secret May 2010 report reveals that it monitored "diplomatic,
economic and leadership communications which continue to provide insight
into Mexico's political system and internal stability." The NSA's
operatives accomplished this by exploiting "a key mail server in the
Mexican Presidencia domain within the Mexican Presidential network," and
additional documents suggest the US has continued to take advantage of
this security hole — it's described as a "lucrative source" of
intelligence.
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