Berlin - United States signals intelligence agency, the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) Britain secretly can access data telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom and several other German operators.
According to the German weekly magazine, Der Spiegel, 14 September 2014 edition, an NSA program called "Treasure Map" could give the United States and British intelligence agencies were eavesdropping directly on the carrier's network to the end user who uses a computer, smartphone or tablet.
This is the latest revelation on the practice of electronic surveillance conducted against the NSA and GCHQ allies, whose origins are from a document that was leaked by Edward Snowden, a former NSA contractor. Snowden is now in Russia after receiving asylum in the country.
Der Spiegel said the tracking program dubbed "Google Earth of the Internet" that can be used to plan the cyber attacks. Until the news was revealed, the magazine has not managed to get a comment from the NSA or GCHQ on the latest news.
Stellar satellite earth station operators, which according to Spiegel is one of Germany that became the target of wiretapping, responded angrily to this latest revelation. "A cyber attack such as this clearly violates German law," said Stellar boss, Christian Steffen.
Responding to reports Spiegel, Deutsche Telekom Netcologne local operators say they have not identified any breaches of the data of their customers. However, the head of information technology security Deutsche Telekom Tschersich Thomas said, "Access conducted secret services of foreign countries in our network totally unacceptable." Deutsche Telekom will look for possible security breaches and it has alerted the authorities about this.
Disclosure of documents reconnaissance massive NSA and GCHQ, which began last year, has sparked outrage in Germany and damage the good relations between Berlin to Washington, after it was revealed that the intercepts are also the target of Chancellor Angela Merkel's cell phone.
Rawstory.com | Der Spiegel