Washington: A new report released in the new website, The Intercept, started by NSA leaks journalist Glenn Greenwald, says that the NSA hacks websites via the system administrators.
According to a secret document provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, the agency tracks down the private email and Facebook accounts of system administrators (or sys admins, as they are often called), before hacking their computers to gain access to the networks they control.
The document consists of several posts, one of them is titled “I hunt sys admins” that were published in 2012 on an internal discussion board hosted on the agency’s classified servers, the site reported. They were written by an NSA official involved in the agency’s effort to break into foreign network routers.
