NSA hacked a Chinese mobile phone company and was looking at millions of SMS

ByPaul Kretek

A government agency in the United StatesConfidential system called "PRISM"It was a problem spying acting on servers etc around the world by using,CIA former employee Mr. Edward Snowden who exposed this problemAlso reveals that similar spy acts and cyber attacks by the National Security Agency (NSA) were also in China and Hong Kong.

EXCLUSIVE: US spies on Chinese mobile phone companies, steals SMS data: Edward Snowden | South China Morning Post
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1266821/us-hacks-chinese-mobile-phone-companies-steals-sms-data-edward-snowden


EXCLUSIVE: US hacked Pacnet, Asia Pacific fiber-optic network operator, in 2009 | South China Morning Post
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1266875/exclusive-us-hacked-pacnet-asia-pacific-fibre-optic-network-operator


According to Mr. Snowden, NSA hacked to a Chinese mobile phone company and he was looking at millions of text messages (SMS).

In China, a wide range of people from Singapore to the government officials, such as business interaction and private chat, are using SMS, and 900 billion is exchanged in 2012. China Mobile (China Mobile), China's largest and largest mobile communications carrier, has 735 million users and the second largest China Unicom (China Unicom) in China has 200 million 58 million people, China Telecom (China Telecom) 3rd, there are 172 million users.

ByKārlis Dambrāns

Although security experts in China have noticed that there are concerns about security concerns due to the possibility of backdoor in foreign-made communication equipment, although security experts in China have also noticed for some years, domestic manufacturers have been rivals abroad He said he was silent as he was striving to catch up with him. Now domestic manufacturers in China have dramatically improved quality while the reliability of foreign products has declined, there are scenes of saying this problem, the president of the Beijing Institute of Communications Technology and "Gold shieldMr. Ham Hsing advocates that "All People's Information Security Investigation Committee should be launched as soon as possible". The telecommunications company said that it is promoting exchange of foreign-made facilities.

Also, Mr. Snowden reveals that computers owned by Pacnet, a global company headquartered in Hong Kong and Singapore, were subject to cyber attack by NSA. Pacnet has over 46,000 km of fiber optic network in the Asia Pacific region, and it has 16 data centers, communication companies, multinational corporations, government. There are five data centers in mainland China, and the latest data center was developed in Tianjin in December 2012.

Mr. Snowden said that America's target is "network backbone through which a large amount of data passes". The other day,Hong Kong Chinese UniversityI was talking about being a target of espionage, but this is because the university was in Hong KongInternet exchangeIt is because all the communication passes here. On the university side, as a result of checking the server, it announced that attack was not detected, but it is not clear which period the investigation was done.

According to Hong Kong 's Secretary - General, Liu - kun, he seems to have police checking the hub and taking a 24 - hour surveillance system after this exposure by Mr. Snowden.

In addition, the United States prosecuted Snowden under suspicion of violating the Spy Act Control Law and requested detention and handover to Hong Kong, but Mr. Snowden left Hong Kong on February 23Arrive in Moscow, Ecuador, who has received proven application for exile to Ecuador and accepted Assanji of the founder of WikiLeaks who was similarly receiving arrangements from the United States and Britain, seems to accept Ecuador.

Current affairs dot: Mr. Snowden arrives in Moscow = asylum application to Ecuador - Hong Kong government not hand over to rice