Hackers infiltrated the European Union’s diplomatic communications network for years, downloading thousands of cables that reveal concerns about an unpredictable Trump administration and struggles to deal with Russia and China and the risk that Iran would revive its nuclear program...
The cables were copied from the secure network and posted to an open internet site that the hackers set up in the course of their attack, according to Area 1, the firm that discovered the breach...
Asked on Tuesday about the hack, the National Security Agency said it was still examining the discovery of the European trove. But the former senior intelligence official said that the European Union
had been warned, repeatedly, that its aging communications system was highly vulnerable to hacking by China, Russia, Iran and other states.
The official said the warnings were usually received with a shrug...
The Europeans appear, belatedly, to be waking up to the threat.
Its senior staff members increasingly use encrypted telephones, and isolated “speech rooms” of Lucite are being installed in key posts...
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