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The NSA and GCHQ have tracked and monitored the activities of independent and nation-state hackers, along with some of the foremost security researchers in order to gather information on targets and pilfer the stolen data from hackers' archives, top secret Snowden documents reveal. State-sponsored, individual Blackhat hackers and hacking groups target some or other organizations on an ongoing basis. So, by monitoring the work of 'freelance' and rival state hackers, the NSA and its allies get the stolen information, such as email accounts or chats owned by target of their interest, without doing much of hard work. HACKERS STOLE FROM TARGETS & AGENCIES STOLE FROM HACKERS According to the latest revealed documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden , the hacks and sophisticated breaches on the targets were carried out by the state-sponsored and freelance hackers, but the stolen data, referred to as 'take', was then pilfered by the agencies for...

Dear THN Readers, ' The Hacker News ' is celebrating its 4th Anniversary today and we would like to thank every single Hacker, Researcher, Journalist, Enthusiast who has contributed to our phenomenal growth. When we began our journey 4 years back as a Small Local Community of few Hackers and Security Researchers, we had a dream of providing the Hacking Community with World's not first but best Hacking and IT Security News Platform. We wanted to gift hacking community members and security researchers their own trusted and an unique News platform, which is run by Hackers and dedicated to Hackers, a platform which is free from Censorship, Conventions, Governments and Borders. Now, we have been Internationally recognized as a leading news source dedicated to promoting awareness for cyber security experts and hackers. We are happy to announce that this project is now Supported and endorsed by thousands of Security Experts, administrators and members of vario...

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