Spiegel Online International - 11/11/13, by Spiegel Staff
Officials at LinkedIn say they "would not authorize
such activity for any purpose". (DPA)
such activity for any purpose". (DPA)
Elite GCHQ teams targeted employees of mobile communications companies and billing companies to gain access to their company networks. The spies used fake copies of LinkedIn profiles as one of their tools.
The British intelligence workers had already thoroughly researched the engineers. According to a "top secret" GCHQ presentation disclosed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, they began by identifying employees who worked in network maintenance and security for the partly government-owned Belgian telecommunications company Belgacom.
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