BELGACOM : Belgium PM : Belgium Telecoms Provider Reportedly Spied on by NSA | 4-Traders.
BRUSSELS--Belgium's prime minister Elio Di Rupo Monday said the government is looking into a complaint by the company's biggest telecommunications operator, Belgacom SA (BELG.BT), that it was spied on by another country.
"If this hypothesis of cyber-espionage is confirmed, the government will firmly condemn this intrusion and violation of a public company's integrity," a statement from Mr. Di Rupo and his ministers said. "The goal of intrusion wasn't sabotage, but collection of strategic data."
The documents given to the federal prosecutor's office by Belgacom "indicate the high-level involvement of another country," the statement added.
According to De Standaard, the Dutch-language daily which reported the attacks, the spying was carried out by the U.S. National Security Agency and involved tracking international telephone calls for two years. It was focused on BICS, the Belgacom unit which provides wholesale telecom infrastructure services--in particular in Africa and the Middle East.
"Previous security checks by Belgacom experts revealed traces of a digital intrusion in the company's internal IT system," the company said in a statement. "The company has filed a complaint against an unknown third party and is granting its full support to the investigation that is being performed by the Federal Prosecutor."
Belgacom is majority-owned by the Belgian state.
By Frances Robinson at frances.robinson@wsj.com
Oltre al Parlamento Europeo a Bruxelles ha sede lo SWIFT che e' il sistema di comunicazione utilizzato da 9700 banche in oltre 200 Stati. Praticamente tutte le transazioni internazionali mondiali passano per Bruxelles....
Scritto da: Umberto | 17/09/2013 a 01:45
eh, già..
Scritto da: Stefano Quintarelli | 17/09/2013 a 07:52
No, lo Swift per essere quotato al NYSE deve gia' esporre tutte le transazioni al governo USA, quindi sono dati che hanno gia'.
Tenete conto pero' che Belgacomm e' un partner market di Vodafone, e solo una settimana fa un ex dipendente di Vodafone DE ha ciuffato milioni di record utente.
Sembra un attacco concentrico contro Vodafone?
Scritto da: Bishop_Dhu | 17/09/2013 a 11:11
c'è anche, fattore non secondario, la sede NATO a Bruxelles, tra l'aeroporto e la città.
Poi Bruxelles è sede delle istituzioni europee (commisSione e parlamento) e di conseguenza anche di molte rappresentanze, la maggioranza UE ma non solo.. un bel "boccone ghiotto"
;)
Scritto da: c.la | 19/09/2013 a 13:12