Operation_Socialist
Operation Socialist
GCHQ espionage on Belgacom
Operation Socialist is the code name given by the British signals and communications agency Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) to an operation in which GCHQ successfully breached the infrastructure of the Belgian telecommunications company Belgacom between 2010 and 2013.[1] The operation's existence was first revealed in documents leaked by the former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.