SAO PAULO: The US government tapped into computer networks of firms including Google Inc and Brazilian state-run oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras), according to leaked US documents aired by Globo, Brazil’s biggest television network.
Globo said the agency had also spied on major companies. It showed slides from an NSA presentation, dated May 2012, that it said was used to show new agents how to spy on private computer networks.
In addition to Google and Petrobras the presentation suggested the NSA had tapped into systems operated by France’s foreign ministry and the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, an international bank cooperative known as Swift, through which many international financial transactions take place.
AFP
