“The
world's largest maker of mobile SIM cards, Gemalto, says a
preliminary internal probe shows British and U.S. intelligence
services 'probably' hacked into its office networks. But the
Amsterdam-based company contends the attacks have not resulted in a
massive privacy leak. Gemalto CEO Olivier Piou says their
investigation shows the US National Security Agency and its British
counterpart, GCHQ, 'probably happened,' with two sophisticated
attacks taking place in 2010 and 2011.”
“The
attacks first came to light last week through documents released by
former NSA systems analyst Edward Snowden. The documents show the
attacks potentially allowed the US and British intelligence to
monitor the calls, texts and emails of billions of mobile users
around the world.”
“...
Gemalto contends the hack could not have resulted in a massive theft
of SIM encryption keys, suggesting 3G and 4G mobile phones are immune
to this sort of attack.”
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