Some hackers are unknowingly gathering intel for the NSA

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/565624/some-hackers-unknowingly-gathering-intel-nsa/

By Lucian Constantin
IDG News Service
05 February, 2015

The U.S. National Security Agency and its intelligence partners are 
reportedly sifting through data stolen by state-sponsored and freelance 
hackers on a regular basis in search of valuable information.

Despite constantly warning about the threat of hackers and pushing for 
their prosecution, the intelligence agencies of the U.S., Canada and the 
U.K. are happy to ride their coattails when it serves their interests, 
news website The Intercept reported Wednesday.

"Hackers are stealing the emails of some of our targets... by collecting 
the hackers' 'take' we 1) get access to the emails ourselves and 2) get 
insights into who's being hacked," a page from an internal wiki used by 
the agencies reads. The page, last modified in 2012, was among the files 
leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden to journalists and was 
published by The Intercept.

One such cache of stolen data is known internally to the Five Eyes 
alliance -- the intelligence agencies of the U.S., Canada, the U.K., 
Australia and New Zealand -- under the code name INTOLERANT.

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