US And UK Accused Of Hacking Sim Card Firm To Steal Codes: Breaking News

US and British intelligence agencies hacked into a major manufacturer of Sim cards in order to steal codes that facilitate eavesdropping on mobiles, a US news website says.

The Intercept says the revelations came from US intelligence contractor turned whistleblower Edward Snowden.

The Dutch company allegedly targeted – Gemalto – says it is taking the allegations “very seriously”.

It operates in 85 countries and has more than 40 manufacturing facilities.

The Intercept says that “the great Sim heist” gave US and British surveillance agencies “the potential to secretly monitor a large portion of the world’s cellular communications, including both voice and data”.

It says that among the clients of the Netherlands-based company are AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, Sprint and “some 450 wireless network providers around the world”.

The Intercept claims that the hack organised by Britain’s GCHQ and the US National Security Agency (NSA) took place in 2010, and was organised by operatives in the “Mobile Handset Exploitation Team”. Neither agency has commented on the allegations.

The stolen encryption allowed the agencies to decode data that passes between mobile phones and cell towers. They were able to decrypt calls, texts or emails intercepted out of the air.

A Gemalto spokeswoman said that while the company was not targeted “per se”, there was “an attempt to try and cast the widest net possible to reach as many mobile phones as possible”.

“We take this publication very seriously and will devote all resources necessary to fully investigate and understand the scope of such highly sophisticated techniques to try to obtain Sim card data,” she added.

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