Edward Snowden, NSA whistleblower, said to South China Morning Post that USA has been hacking into mainland China and Hong Kong for years. Snowden, who was formerly employed by CIA, recently leaked PRISM details. PRISM is a program run by National Security Agency (NSA) that is responsible for collecting different types of user information from providers of telephone service and internet service. The PRISM program was designed to track and hunt terrorists.

Snowden said to South China Morning Post in an interview that PRISM program extends all the way to institutions and people in mainland China and Hong Kong. He reported that NSA itself has been involved in hacking Chinese and Hong Kong computers since 2009. He also cited a few documents in support of his statement by the documents have not been verified by the South China Morning Post.

However, Snowden did tell the Post that Chinese Military details were not in those documents. But, the documents do show that Special Administrative Regions of China were hacked by United States. Those Special Administrative Regions included Macau and Hong Kong. US targeted the students, business and public officials of Hong Kong and mainland China.

Snowden also reported to the newspaper that he believes of USA having launched over 61,000 hacking attacks all over the world with main focus staying on China and Hong Kong that have been victims of hundreds of hacks. Snowden reported to the South China Morning Post that instead of hacking individual computers, USA hacks big internet routers which form the network backbones. As a result, communications through all computers can be tapped simultaneously. Snowden said that the governed people have given consent but USA government misused their consent and now people from all walks of the society are asking for oversight and accountability.

Snowden, who was the former employee of CIA and then a contract employee for NSA, shifted to Hong Kong since May 20, 2013. He reported that USA has been using bullying pressure to extradite Snowden to United States.

 

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