BELGACOM hacked by GCHQ

[Carsten Wiethoff]

From http://www.spiegel.de/international/euro...23406.html

Documents from the archive of whistleblower Edward Snowden indicate that Britain's GCHQ intelligence service was behind a cyber attack against Belgacom, a partly state-owned Belgian telecoms company. A "top secret" Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) presentation seen by SPIEGEL indicate that the goal of project, conducted under the codename "Operation Socialist," was "to enable better exploitation of Belgacom" and to improve understanding of the provider's infrastructure.

and of course:

When contacted by SPIEGEL reporters, GCHQ provided no comment.

EU and NATO and also some African traffic flows through BELGACOM.