How UK Spies Hacked a European Ally and Got Away With It
▻https://theintercept.com/2018/02/17/gchq-belgacom-investigation-europe-hack
For a moment, it seemed the hackers had slipped up and exposed their identities. It was the summer of 2013, and European investigators were looking into an unprecedented breach of Belgium’s telecommunications infrastructure. They believed they were on the trail of the people responsible. But it would soon become clear that they were chasing ghosts – fake names that had been invented by British spies. The hack had targeted Belgacom, Belgium’s largest telecommunications provider, which serves (...)
