The British intelligence services GCHQ and MI6 would during two G20 summit meetings in London in 2009, Blackberry’s and e-mail accounts of diplomats and politicians have cracked. It would be ‘internet café lwa s’ are furnished with the help of keyloggers passwords.
Reports that The Guardian on the basis of information provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden. According to the newspaper would during two G-20 sessions, with the twenty largest economies dialogue and consultation, the Uk’s intelligence services GCHQ and MI6 computers and smartphones of diplomats and politicians in real time have drained. It would have cooperated with the NSA. With the acquired information would be the British among others have insight want to get in the negotiating positions of various participants, including allies such as Turkey and South Africa.
During the G20 meetings in april and september 2009, the GCHQ e-mail via blackberrys and laptops, participating countries have to follow. This would have happened in command of the British prime minister, Gordon Brown. A part of the passwords would be captured by ‘coffee shops’ in focus for the G20 participants. On these machines would keyloggers are installed.
How the Blackberry’s are cracked, it is not clear, but the British secret service would be real-time have had access to numerous e-mail accounts, while phone calls were tapped. Certainly 45 employees of GCHQ would be at the afluisterproject have worked. The Guardian reports that the NSA during the G20 meetings tried would have to be encrypted telephone conversations of the then Russian president Dmitry Medvedev to intercept.
Although there are often rumours doing the rounds about large-scale espionage activities during international summits, it is the first time that detailed information about this comes out. Moreover, the publication on the eve of a G8 meeting on Monday by the British in Northern Ireland is organised.