Hacker Group Claims to Be Selling NSA Files
UPDATED Tuesday morning with Edward Snowden's comments, and Tuesday afternoon with a comprehensive list of purported NSA tools referenced in the data dump. It's either a very elaborate hoax, or it's evidence that someone has hacked into the U.S. National Security Agency. On Saturday (Aug. 13), tweets and other online postings from a new group calling itself "Shadow Brokers" said that it was auctioning off files stolen from the "Equation Group." Equation Group is Kaspersky Lab's name for an extremely sophisticated cyberespionage group with ties to the Stuxnet computer worm, which in 2010 damaged Iranian nuclear-fuel-processing facilities.