Although the company Gemalto denied earlier that SIM cards produced have been bugged by the US National Security Agency NSA but the company subsequently returned to confirm this and indicates that she was a victim of piracy by the American intelligence agency.
The issue has surfaced last week when it revealed the site known as The "Intercept" in an article that the US National Security Agency NSA and British Intelligence Agency GCHQ "who spied on SIM cards or" Subscriber identity module "users worldwide, and is granted access to information users for 450 telecommunications company in 85 countries across the world, and through the" sequence "of the French-Dutch company network" Gemalto ", which is The largest and most important manufacturer of SIM cards in the world, And as The Intercept site, citing leaked documents to former US client Edward Snowden said the NSA and GCHQ spy placed hand on encryption key for SIM cards made by Gemalto, which enables protection of telephony and voice messages and text in addition to the data user's Internet connections on his phone, the two devices via hacked computers through spying software named "XKeyscore".
Gemalto company was confirmed after the news that the SIM cards are considered safe but promised a thorough investigation into the allegations, and it appears that the results of the investigation have emerged today as indicated in a statement that Gemalto has already been hacked systems company but denied that any piece of information that their clients had been leaked following this hack where company experts did not find any trace of this during their investigations, since the electronic attack Its not only the exchange of data at the level of the 2 g network.