Snowden has used other people's usernames and passwords to access the data NSA
A former employee of the National Security Agency (NSA), USA Edward Snowden, who became famous after the exposure of Western intelligence agencies have used other people's usernames and passwords to get access to classified material, which he later gave to the media, said Friday the agency Reuters , citing unnamed sources.
This became known during the investigation that the U.S. government carried out to identify vulnerabilities in security intelligence, and find out what other data is not made public by journalists, were in the hands of Snowden. Sources told Reuters that the investigation was delayed because the debunkers were able to "cover up" their tracks by hiding information on what documents he downloaded. In particular it could be possible through the use of foreign credentials to log into the system.
According to a source familiar with the investigation, several employees of the NSA Operations Center in Hawaii, where before fleeing to Hong Kong has worked Snowden, were questioned and taken off the tasks that they perform. Sources were unable to answer whether they had been fired or have other tasks not relating to access to private databases. We are talking about approximately 20-25 analysts, said one official. According to investigators, Edward Snowden ugovarivaril them to provide him with their usernames and passwords to gain public documents to which he had access, said another source. Their requests Snowden, Acting System Administrator, explained by the fact that the passwords are necessary for it to carry out its work.
The representatives of the NSA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence declined to comment. Snowden has worked at the center of the NSA in Hawaii for a month in the spring of 2012. During this time, he copied tens of thousands of internal documents of the service, which in June 2013 to journalists for publication, according to Forbes .
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