NSA Secretly Working to Track Bitcoin Users, Snowden Documents Reveal

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The US National Security Agency (NSA) targeted bitcoin users through a secret government surveillance ‎program code-named MONKEYROCKET, ‎online paper The ‎Intercept reported on Monday.

According to the report, which bases its information on confidential NSA documents provided by Edward J. Snowden, ‎MONKEYROCKET is part of a previously undisclosed program called OAKSTAR, ‎which allows officials to collect a wide range of user information through a ‎collection of covert corporate partnerships.

The collected ‎materials included bitcoin users’ password information, internet activity, ‎and ‎MAC address, among many others.

The spy agency furthermore facilitates ‎extensive, in-depth surveillance on live communications and stored information.‎ A foreign fiber cable site ... (read more)