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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
Add BT as a preferred sourcePublished Fri, May 22, 2015 · 09:50 PM
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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