Some of the National Security Agency's most powerful and top-secret
hacking tools appear to have been posted online in recent days, raising
alarms among American security experts that the supposedly impenetrable
spy agency has itself been hacked and its potent cyberespionage
capabilities made publicly available.
Security experts and former National Security
Agency officials also believe that material posted online -- essentially
a cyber version of a burglar's bag of breaking and entering tools -- is
somehow connected to an unprecedented and ongoing campaign by Russia to
meddle in U.S. affairs, including the presidential election.
One of those experts is Edward Snowden, the
former NSA contractor who has been hiding out in Russia after stealing a
vast trove of his former employer's most classified data and leaking it
to journalists back in 2013.
"Circumstantial evidence and conventional wisdom
indicates Russian responsibility," Snowden said in a long statement
posted online in a series of tweets.
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