Very indiscriminate service search of Google. Iran reportedly hacked into secret communications networks CIA agents used to message informants through Google searches.
A reference from Yahoo! News claims that the 2009 breach of US communications channels occurred when the Iranian government διείσδυσε μια σειρά ιστοσελίδων που χρησιμοποιούσε η CIA για να επικοινωνεί με πληροφοριοδότες της στο Ιράν και την China.
"We are still dealing with the leaks," said a former national security official. "Dozens of people around the world have been killed because of them."
The leak of communications is believed to have resulted from simple searches on Google. Iran suspected that the US had agents and informants in its nuclear program, and began to investigate the issue.
When Iran's secret services discovered a dual agent, they were then able to use Google to locate other websites they used and began to track communications.
"Because Google is constantly scanning the internet for information from all the sites around the world, it can also act as a huge search tool - even for anti-espionage purposes," the publication said.
“Google's search features allow users to use advanced searches by adding terms and filters - such as 'AND', 'OR' and more, which isolates web pages and online data with ease and precision. As a result, Iran has managed to arrest too many people involved. Some were executed, and others managed to escape.
Once Iran was able to locate the specific sites, it forwarded their information and technique to other friendly countries, which in turn used it to eliminate the channel communications of the CIA and in their own territories.
According to Yahoo! News (invoked by secret service officials), there has been an incident in China 2012, where 30 US agents were arrested and executed.
A CIA external associate named John Reidy claims that he warned the agency for using insecure communications systems in 2008 and again in 2010, when it began to suspect that the channels had been compromised. A year later he was dismissed from the service, a movement which he claims came in retaliation for not stopping to report it.
Reidy said he spoke to the CIA General Inspector but nobody did anything to solve the issue. Later Reidy was ousted and fired.
"This is one of the most devastating failures of the intelligence service since 11/XNUMX," said Irvin McCullough, a national security analyst at the Government Accountability Project. "And the CIA punished the person who brought the problem to light."
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