NSALeaks in Chronological order Simple

* Monday 16 September 2013

The NSA has hacked telecommunications firm Belgacom, targeting information concerning the principal organs of the EU in Brussels
http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/spaehangriff-auf-eu-telefonanbieter-belgacom-a-922555.html

Translated Link
http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/spaehangriff-auf-eu-telefonanbieter-belgacom-a-922555.html

*Sunday 15 September 2013

Follow the Money: The NSA is interested in international payments processed by companies including Visa, SPIEGEL has learned. It has even set up its own financial database to track money flows through a "tailored access operations" division.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/spiegel-exclusive-nsa-spies-on-international-bank-transactions-a-922276.html

* Thursday 12 September 2013

Obama's NSA surveillance review panel did not discuss changes, attendees say "Pair say meeting was dominated by tech firms' interests and session did not broach the topic of changes to data collection.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/12/obama-nsa-review-surveillance-changes

* Wednesday 11 September 2013

NSA and Israeli intelligence: memorandum of understanding – full document. Top-secret document shows how intelligence being shared with Israel would not be filtered in advance by NSA analysts to remove US communications

http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/sep/11/nsa-israel-intelligence-memorandum-understanding-document

* Wednesday 11 September 2013

NSA shares raw intelligence including Americans' data with Israel: Secret deal places no legal limits on use of data by Israelis, only official US government communications protected.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/11/nsa-americans-personal-data-israel-documents

* Monday 9 September 2013

NSA accused of spying on Brazilian oil company Petrobras: Accusations that NSA is conducting intelligence-gathering operations that go beyond its core mission of national security

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/09/nsa-spying-brazil-oil-petrobras

* Saturday 7 September 2013

Privacy Scandal: NSA Can Spy on Smart Phone Data. SPIEGEL has learned from internal NSA documents that the US intelligence agency has the capability of tapping user data from the iPhone, devices using Android as well as BlackBerry, a system previously believed to be highly secure.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/privacy-scandal-nsa-can-spy-on-smart-phone-data-a-920971.html

* Saturday 7 September 2013

Obama administration had restrictions on NSA reversed in 2011

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/obama-administration-had-restrictions-on-nsa-reversed-in-2011/2013/09/07/c26ef658-0fe5-11e3-85b6-d27422650fd5_story.html

* Thursday 5 September 2013

NSA: classification guide for cryptanalysis. Guide reveals that NSA 'obtains cryptographic details of commercial cryptographic information security systems through industry relationships'

http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/sep/05/nsa-classification-guide-cryptanalysis

* Thursday 5 September 2013

Revealed: how US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security. NSA and GCHQ unlock encryption used to protect emails, banking and medical records; $250m-a-year US program works covertly with tech companies to insert weaknesses into products.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-gchq-encryption-codes-security

* Thursday 5 September 2013

Project Bullrun – classification guide to the NSA's decryption program. Guide for NSA employees and contractors on Bullrun outlines its goals – and reveals that the agency has capabilities against widely-used online protocols such as HTTPS

http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/sep/05/nsa-project-bullrun-classification-guide

* Thursday 5 September 2013

Sigint – how the NSA collaborates with technology companies. Document shows how 'signals intelligence', or Sigint, 'actively engages US and foreign IT industries to covertly influence and/or overtly leverage their commercial products' designs'

http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/sep/05/sigint-nsa-collaborates-technology-companies

* Monday 2 September 2013

Top-secret U.S. intelligence files show new levels of distrust of Pakistan

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-09-02/world/41690725_1_intelligence-u-s-spy-agencies-other-adversaries

* Monday 2 September 2013

NSA 'spied on communications' of Brazil and Mexico presidents. Brazil's Globo news program reports revelations based on documents obtained by Glenn Greenwald from Edward Snowden

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/02/nsa-spied-mexico-brazil-presidents

*Sunday 1 September 2013

U.S. intelligence agencies spend millions to hunt for insider threats, document shows

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-09-01/politics/41670768_1_u-s-intelligence-agencies-intelligence-community-edward-snowden

* Sunday 1 September 2013

Success Story: NSA Targeted French Foreign Ministry

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/nsa-targeted-french-foreign-ministry-a-919693.html

* Saturday 31 August 2013

Snowden Document: NSA Spied On Al Jazeera Communications

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/nsa-spied-on-al-jazeera-communications-snowden-document-a-919681.html

* Friday 30 August 2013

U.S. spy agencies mounted 231 offensive cyber-operations in 2011, documents show

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-08-30/world/41620705_1_computer-worm-former-u-s-officials-obama-administration

* Thursday 29 August 2013

NSA paying U.S. companies for access to communications networks

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-paying-us-companies-for-access-to-communications-networks/2013/08/29/5641a4b6-10c2-11e3-bdf6-e4fc677d94a1_story.html

* Thursday 29 August 2013

U.S. spy network’s successes, failures and objectives detailed in ‘black budget’ summary

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/black-budget-summary-details-us-spy-networks-successes-failures-and-objectives/2013/08/29/7e57bb78-10ab-11e3-8cdd-bcdc09410972_story.html

* Monday 26 August 2013

Codename 'Apalachee': How America Spies on Europe and the UN

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/secret-nsa-documents-show-how-the-us-spies-on-europe-and-the-un-a-918625.html

* Sunday 25 August 2013

NSA hacked UN video calls as part of surveillance program, claims report.

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/8/25/nsa-bugged-u-n-headquarters.html

* Friday 23 August 2013

NSA officers... on several occasions have channelled their agency’s enormous eavesdropping power to spy on love interests


http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/08/23/nsa-officers-sometimes-spy-on-love-interests/?mg=blogs-wsj&url=http%253A%252F%252Fblogs.wsj.com%252Fwashwire%252F2013%252F08%252F23%252Fnsa-officers-sometimes-spy-on-love-interests

* Thursday 22 August 2013

NSA paid millions to cover Prism compliance costs for tech companies. Top-secret files show first evidence of financial relationship; Prism companies include Google and Yahoo, says NSA. Costs were incurred after 2011 Fisa court ruling.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/23/nsa-prism-costs-tech-companies-paid

* Thursday 15 August 2013

What to say, and not to say, to 'our overseers': This document tells NSA analysts how to explain their targeting decisions without giving "extraneous information" to "our FAA overseers."

http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/national/what-to-say-and-not-to-say-to-our-overseers/390/

* Thursday 15 August 2013

NSA report on privacy violations in the first quarter of 2012: this is the full executive summary, with names redacted by The Post, of a classified internal report on breaches of NSA privacy rules and legal restrictions.

http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/national/nsa-report-on-privacy-violations-in-the-first-quarter-of-2012/395/

* Friday 9 August 2013

NSA loophole allows warrant less search for US citizens' emails and phone calls. Exclusive: Spy agency has secret backdoor permission to search databases for individual Americans' communications

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/09/nsa-loophole-warrantless-searches-email-calls

* Friday 2 August 2013

BT and Vodafone among Telecom companies passing details to GCHQ: Fears of customer backlash over breach of privacy as firms give GCHQ unlimited access to their undersea cables

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/aug/02/telecoms-bt-vodafone-cables-gchq

* Thursday 1 August 2013

GCHQ: Inside the top secret world of Britain's biggest spy agency. Files leaked by Edward Snowden reveal how the NSA pays for and influences some of the UK's intelligence gathering programs

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/02/gchq-spy-agency-nsa-snowden

* Thursday 1 August 2013

Exclusive: NSA pays £100m in secret funding for GCHQ. Secret payments revealed in leaks by Edward Snowden. GCHQ expected to 'pull its weight' for Americans; Weaker regulation of British spies 'a selling point' for NSA.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/aug/01/nsa-paid-gchq-spying-edward-snowden

* Wednesday 31 July 2013

XKeyscore presentation from 2008 – read in full: Training materials for the XKeyscore program detail how analysts can use it and other systems to mine enormous agency databases and develop intelligence from the web

http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/jul/31/nsa-xkeyscore-program-full-presentation

* Wednesday 31 July 2013

XKeyscore: NSA tool collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/31/nsa-top-secret-program-online-data

* Saturday 20 July 2013

Prolific Partner: German Intelligence Used NSA Spy Program

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-intelligence-agencies-used-nsa-spying-program-a-912173.html

* Friday 12 July 2013

Telstra signed deal that would have allowed US spying: Australian company agreed to allow US government to store information on communications between US and other countries

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/12/telstra-deal-america-government-spying

* Thursday 11 July 2013

Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages: Secret files show scale of Silicon Valley co-operation on Prism, Outlook.com encryption unlocked even before official launch, Skype worked to enable Prism collection of video calls

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-collaboration-user-data

* Monday 8 July 2013

Snowden reveals Australia's links to US spy web

http://www.smh.com.au/world/snowden-reveals-australias-links-to-us-spy-web-20130708-2plyg.html

* Thursday 4 July 2013

France 'runs vast electronic spying operation using NSA-style methods'. Intelligence agency has spied on French public's phone calls, emails and internet activity

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/04/france-electronic-spying-operation-nsa

* Sunday 30 June 2013

New NSA leaks show how US is bugging its European allies. Exclusive: Edward Snowden papers reveal 38 targets including EU, France and Italy

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/30/nsa-leaks-us-bugging-european-allies

* Sunday 30 June 2013

Partner and Target: NSA Snoops on 500 Million German Data Connections

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/nsa-spies-on-500-million-german-data-connections-a-908648.html

* Saturday 29 June 2013

Attacks from America: NSA Spied on European Union Offices

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/nsa-spied-on-european-union-offices-a-908590.html

* Thursday 27 June 2013

NSA collected US email records in bulk for more than two years under Obama: Secret program launched by Bush continued 'until 2011', Fisa court renewed collection order every 90 days

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/27/nsa-data-mining-authorised-obama

* Thursday 27 June 2013

Justice Department and NSA memos proposing broader powers for NSA to collect data: Correspondence involving attorney general Michael Mukasey in 2007 requesting permission for the NSA to expand its 'contact chains' deeper into Americans' email records

http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/jun/27/nsa-data-collection-justice-department

* Thursday 27 June 2013

NSA inspector general report on email and internet data collection under Stellar Wind. Top-secret draft report from 2009 by the NSA's inspector general shows development of 'collection of bulk internet metadata' under program launched under Bush

http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/jun/27/nsa-inspector-general-report-document-data-collection

* Sunday 23 June 2013

South China Morning Post Exclusive: US spies on Chinese mobile phone companies, steals SMS data says Edward Snowden

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1266821/us-hacks-chinese-mobile-phone-companies-steals-sms-data-edward-snowden

* Sunday 23 June 2013

South China Morning Post Exclusive: US hacked Pacnet, Asia Pacific fibre-optic network operator, in 2009

http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1266875/exclusive-us-hacked-pacnet-asia-pacific-fibre-optic-network-operator

* Friday 21 June 2013

GCHQ taps fibre-optic cables for secret access to world's communications. Exclusive: British spy agency collects and stores vast quantities of global email messages, Facebook posts, internet histories and calls, and shares them with NSA, latest documents from Edward Snowden reveal

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jun/21/gchq-cables-secret-world-communications-nsa

* Thursday 20 June 2013

The top secret rules that allow NSA to use US data without a warrant: FISA court submissions show broad scope of procedures governing NSA's surveillance of Americans' communication

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/20/fisa-court-nsa-without-warrant

* Thursday 20 June 2013

Skype's secret "Project Chess" reportedly helped NSA access customers' data; scheme set up even before firm was purchased by Microsoft

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/jun/20/skype-nsa-access-user-data

* Thursday 20 June 2013

Procedures used by NSA to minimize data collection from US persons: Exhibit B – full document

http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/jun/20/exhibit-b-nsa-procedures-document

* Thursday 20 June 2013

Procedures used by NSA to target non-US persons: Exhibit A – full document

http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/jun/20/exhibit-a-procedures-nsa-document

* Monday 17 June 2013

How the NSA is still harvesting your online data: Files show vast scale of current NSA metadata programs, with one stream alone celebrating 'one trillion records processed

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/27/nsa-online-metadata-collection

* Sunday 16 June 2013

UK intelligence agencies planned to spy on Commonwealth summit delegates: Top-secret document, prepared by GCHQ, contained proposals to target Commonwealth allies at heads of government summit

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/16/uk-intelligence-agencies-spy-commonwealth-delegates

* Sunday 16 June 2013

How GCHQ stepped up spying on South African foreign ministry: UK hoped to find out everything it could about negotiating position of Thabo Mbeki's government

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/16/gchq-south-african-foreign-ministry

* Sunday 16 June 2013

GCHQ intercepted foreign politicians' communications at G20 summits. Exclusive: phones were monitored and fake internet cafes set up to gather information from allies in London in 2009

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jun/16/gchq-intercepted-communications-g20-summits

* Tuesday 11 June 2013

Boundless Informant: the NSA's secret tool to track global surveillance data

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/08/nsa-boundless-informant-global-datamining

* Friday 7 June 2013

Obama orders US to draw up overseas target list for cyber-attacks. Exclusive: Top-secret directive steps up offensive cyber capabilities to 'advance US objectives around the world'

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/07/obama-china-targets-cyber-overseas

* Thursday 6 June 2013

Verizon court order: telephone call meta data and what it can show. The US insists call data is not private information, but critics say it allows government to build detailed picture of individuals' lives

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/phone-call-metadata-information-authorities

* Thursday 6 June 2013

NSA Prism program taps in to user data of Apple, Google and others: Top-secret Prism program claims direct access to servers of firms including Google, Apple and Facebook

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data

* Wednesday 5 June 2013 19.04 EDT

Verizon forced to hand over telephone data – full court ruling. The US government is collecting the phone records of millions of US customers of Verizon under a top secret court order. Read the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court order here.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/jun/06/verizon-telephone-data-court-order

* Wednesday 5 June 2013

NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily. Exclusive: Top secret court order requiring Verizon to hand over all call data shows scale of domestic surveillance under Obama

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/nsa-phone-records-verizon-court-order