The National Security Agency has reportedly tapped fiber-optic cables that connect Google’s and Yahoo’s overseas servers and accessed vast amounts of data including email and other personal information. Included in the data culled by the NSA is information on hundreds of millions of users, many of whom are American. The NSA’s acquisition directorate sent millions of records daily from internal Yahoo and Google networks to a data warehouse at the agency’s Fort Meade, Md., headquarters.
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NSA Caught Siphoning Data from Google, Yahoo Servers
Posted by: Peter Suciu October 31, 2013 12:08 PMThe National Security Agency has reportedly tapped fiber-optic cables that connect Google’s and Yahoo’s overseas servers and accessed vast amounts of data including email and other personal information. Included in the data culled by the NSA is information on hundreds of millions of users, many of whom are American. The NSA’s acquisition directorate sent millions of records daily from internal Yahoo and Google networks to a data warehouse at the agency’s Fort Meade, Md., headquarters.