South China Morning Post reported on Monday (06/24/2013), the man who once worked as an engineer for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency also submitted a document that contains information attacks on computers for four years.
The documents listed in the operational details of specific attacks, including an internet protocol (IP), date of the attack, and whether the computers are still monitored remotely.
Sunday Morning Post finally published three things Snowden claimed NSA had done. Among them is the NSA have hacked major telecom companies in China to be able to access text messages, as well as the sustained attack on the backbone network at Tsinghua University, which is widely regarded as the top educational and research institutes in China and is also working on the latest generation of web technologies.
Additionally, Tsinghua also home to one of the six backbone network of China, which is China Education and Research Network.
Snowden also claimed to have hacked the NSA computers Pacnet headquarters in Hong Kong. Pacnet is one that has a fiber submarine cable network of the most extensive in the region.
Pacnet, which has recently signed agreements with major mobile phone companies in mainland China, has more than 46 thousand kilometers of fiber optic cable. The cables that connect the regional data centers across the Asia Pacific region, including Hong Kong, mainland China, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan. The company also has offices in the U.S..
China cyber security experts have long worried about telecom companies are victims of back-door attack as "forced" to go abroad to buy their network core technology.
In recent years the security issues become more vocal, and eventually domestic network equipment suppliers such as Huawei, Datang and ZTE began to close the technology gap. By doing so, the Chinese telecom companies reduce their dependence on foreign suppliers.
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