British Spy Agency #GCHQ Hacked Belgian #Telecoms Firm - SPIEGEL ONLINE
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Documents from the archive of whistleblower Edward #Snowden indicate that Britain’s GCHQ intelligence service was behind a cyber attack against Belgacom, a partly state-owned Belgian telecoms company. A “top secret” Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) presentation seen by SPIEGEL indicate that the goal of project, conducted under the codename “Operation Socialist,” was “to enable better exploitation of Belgacom” and to improve understanding of the provider’s #infrastructure .