Was the NSA Hacked?

“The release on websites this week of what appears to be top-secret computer code that the National Security Agency has used to break into the networks of foreign governments and other espionage targets has caused deep concern inside American intelligence agencies, raising the question of whether America’s own elite operatives have been hacked and their methods revealed,” the New York Times reports.

“Most of the code was designed to break through network firewalls and get inside the computer systems of competitors like Russia, China and Iran. That, in turn, allows the N.S.A. to place ‘implants’ in the system, which can lurk unseen for years and be used to monitor network traffic or enable a debilitating computer attack.”