NSA had plans to hack Google app store: report
The scheme would allow data connections to app stores to be hijacked, and data to be harvested from smartphones
Washington
THE US National Security Agency (NSA) developed plans to hack into data links to app stores operated by Google and Samsung to plant spyware on smartphones, a media report said on Thursday.
The online news site The Intercept said that US intelligence developed the plan with allies in Britain, Canada, New Zealand and Australia, a group known as the Five Eyes alliance.
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