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Snowden’s decryption confirmed:US&British government hacked Belgian communications company to obtain data
Original Global Times 2018-09-21 14:47:37
According to Agence France-Presse, a Belgian official said on Thursday that a confidential report from Belgian investigators confirmed that British intelligence agencies on behalf of the United States launched a hacking attack on Belgian state-owned telecom giant Proximus Group.
In 2013, Edward Snowden, a former CIA former employee, disclosed the “prism” plan of US intelligence agencies to monitor public communications. Snowden is very familiar with the monitoring activities of US intelligence agencies and has been living after the disclosure of relevant plans. In exile. The large amount of data disclosed by Snowden also exposes the close cooperation between the National Security Agency and other countries and agencies, such as the cooperation with the UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), which collects electronic intelligence, and shares intelligence information. Belgium is considered to be one of the victims of the surveillance project, and the exposure may have undermined the relationship between two close allies of Belgium and the United States.
Koen Geens, a person familiar with the case, told AFP that the Belgian investigator’s confidential report outlined the five-year judicial investigation conducted by the Belgian government on the surveillance project, which is now nearing completion and submitted to the Belgian Justice unit.
The Belgian investigation focused on the activities of the UK Government Intelligence Communications Headquarters, as about 20 pages of PPTs disclosed in Snowden’s documentary disclosure of hacker attacks by the UK’s government communications headquarters, including the Belgian telecom giant Proximus Group Subordinate company BICS. It is reported that BICS is mainly responsible for handling a large number of telephone and data communications in Europe, the Middle East and European customers including EU institutions.
According to reports, the Belgian National Security Council will discuss the matter internally, including the Belgian Prime Minister and the highest security ministers and officials. AFP contacted the Belgian Federal Prosecutor's Office and the Federal Cabinet Minister of Justice, Jeans, in hopes of responding to the matter, but they declined to comment.
In the summer of 2013, when the prismatic door scandal was exposed, the Belgian Flemish Standards reported that BICS was the core unit of the US-sponsored espionage aimed at acquiring Middle Eastern countries from Syria and Yemen. The communication of the phone number. At that time, Belgian Prime Minister Elio Lupo promised in September 2013 that if Belgium confirmed that foreign high-level officials were involved in the matter, then “appropriate measures” would be taken (respond).
(Editor: LWC)
Original Global Times 2018-09-21 14:47:37
According to Agence France-Presse, a Belgian official said on Thursday that a confidential report from Belgian investigators confirmed that British intelligence agencies on behalf of the United States launched a hacking attack on Belgian state-owned telecom giant Proximus Group.
In 2013, Edward Snowden, a former CIA former employee, disclosed the “prism” plan of US intelligence agencies to monitor public communications. Snowden is very familiar with the monitoring activities of US intelligence agencies and has been living after the disclosure of relevant plans. In exile. The large amount of data disclosed by Snowden also exposes the close cooperation between the National Security Agency and other countries and agencies, such as the cooperation with the UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), which collects electronic intelligence, and shares intelligence information. Belgium is considered to be one of the victims of the surveillance project, and the exposure may have undermined the relationship between two close allies of Belgium and the United States.
Koen Geens, a person familiar with the case, told AFP that the Belgian investigator’s confidential report outlined the five-year judicial investigation conducted by the Belgian government on the surveillance project, which is now nearing completion and submitted to the Belgian Justice unit.
The Belgian investigation focused on the activities of the UK Government Intelligence Communications Headquarters, as about 20 pages of PPTs disclosed in Snowden’s documentary disclosure of hacker attacks by the UK’s government communications headquarters, including the Belgian telecom giant Proximus Group Subordinate company BICS. It is reported that BICS is mainly responsible for handling a large number of telephone and data communications in Europe, the Middle East and European customers including EU institutions.
According to reports, the Belgian National Security Council will discuss the matter internally, including the Belgian Prime Minister and the highest security ministers and officials. AFP contacted the Belgian Federal Prosecutor's Office and the Federal Cabinet Minister of Justice, Jeans, in hopes of responding to the matter, but they declined to comment.
In the summer of 2013, when the prismatic door scandal was exposed, the Belgian Flemish Standards reported that BICS was the core unit of the US-sponsored espionage aimed at acquiring Middle Eastern countries from Syria and Yemen. The communication of the phone number. At that time, Belgian Prime Minister Elio Lupo promised in September 2013 that if Belgium confirmed that foreign high-level officials were involved in the matter, then “appropriate measures” would be taken (respond).
(Editor: LWC)
