The NSA hacked Google and Yahoo

The leaks of Edward Snowden, a former employee of Booz Allen Hamilton, a contractor for the National Security Agency and the US intelligence services, still dominate the international media and newspapers. 

The latest leak, published b thye American Washington Post, confirmed that the US National Security Agency had penetrated the servers of Google and Yahoo companies that carry the data of the company's customers and users of its services. 

According to a top secret document, the agency spied on key communications links between Google and Yahoo data centers around the world.

And the American newspaper reported: "According to the document, dated January 9, 2013, the agency's acquisition division sends millions of records per day from the internal Yahoo and Google networks to a data warehouse at the agency's headquarters in Fort Meade County. 

The information includes data about the sender and recipient of emails, as well as content such as text, video clips, and audio clips.

It is important to say that the NSA can legally access Google and Yahoo user accounts through a court-approved program known as Prism.

Commenting on the leaks, Google's chief legal advisor, David Drummond, said that Google had not granted any government a license to access its systems.

While a Yahoo spokesperson said the company exercises "strict oversight" to protect the security of the company's data centers, "we have not given the NSA or any other government agency access to our data centers. 

According to the newspaper, the closest scenario we can get is for the agency to spy on communication links between the main data centers of Google and Yahoo. Geographically separated, so that the agency was able to penetrate the communication links that connect the companies' data servers, which means that it is able to obtain all the data that is transmitted between the company's different servers. 

According to press reports published last week, the United States has been spying on the German chancellor's mobile phone for nearly a decade. In the same context, the Sydney Morning Herald reported yesterday that Australian embassies were being used to spy on Asian countries such as China, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. 

US Secretary of State John Kerry said NSA spying had "crossed acceptable lines in some cases".