Ron Burgundy Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 Gemalto, the world's largest maker of mobile SIM cards, said a preliminary company probe of sophisticated attacks against it in 2010 and 2011 showed British and U.S. intelligence services "probably" hacked into its office networks. Gemalto said the suspected attacks by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) "probably happened", but said the intrusions "only breached its office networks" and "could not have resulted in a massive theft of SIM encryption keys". The Franco-Dutch company was responding to a report by investigative news site The Intercept, which last week published documents it said showed that U.S. and British spies hacked into Gemalto, potentially allowing them to monitor the calls, texts and emails of billions of mobile users around the world. Gemalto said the spy operation aimed to intercept the encryption codes needed to unlock security for Subscriber Identity Modules (SIMs) while the modules were shipped from its production facilities to mobile network operators worldwide. View the full article Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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