'Snowden used inexpensive software to access secret files'

February 09, 2014 20:17

US whistleblower Edward Snowden, who honed his hacking skills in India, used inexpensive and widely available software to "scrape" the National Security Agency's networks, according to American intelligence officials probing his high-profile case.

Using "web crawler" software designed to search, index and back up a website, 30-year-old Snowden "scraped data out of our systems" while he went about his day job, The New York Times quoted a senior intelligence official as saying.

"We do not believe this was an individual sitting at a machine and downloading this much material in sequence," the official said.

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