US
Citizen
Hacked
by
Spyware
The
New
York
Times
is
reporting
that
a
US
citizen’s
phone
was
hacked
by
the
Predator
spyware.
A
U.S.
and
Greek
national
who
worked
on
Meta’s
security
and
trust
team
while
based
in
Greece
was
placed
under
a
yearlong
wiretap
by
the
Greek
national
intelligence
service
and
hacked
with
a
powerful
cyberespionage
tool,
according
to
documents
obtained
by
The
New
York
Times
and
officials
with
knowledge
of
the
case.The
disclosure
is
the
first
known
case
of
an
American
citizen
being
targeted
in
a
European
Union
country
by
the
advanced
snooping
technology,
the
use
of
which
has
been
the
subject
of
a
widening
scandal
in
Greece.
It
demonstrates
that
the
illicit
use
of
spyware
is
spreading
beyond
use
by
authoritarian
governments
against
opposition
figures
and
journalists,
and
has
begun
to
creep
into
European
democracies,
even
ensnaring
a
foreign
national
working
for
a
major
global
corporation.The
simultaneous
tapping
of
the
target’s
phone
by
the
national
intelligence
service
and
the
way
she
was
hacked
indicate
that
the
spy
service
and
whoever
implanted
the
spyware,
known
as
Predator,
were
working
hand
in
hand.
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photo
of
Bruce
Schneier
by
Joe
MacInnis.
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