2 Billion SIM cards per year from one manufacturer compromised.for 1/2 a decade.


The Great SIM Heist
How Spies Stole The Keys To The Encryption Castle
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015 … sim-heist/
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/02/1 … ufacturer/

"spies hacked into the internal computer network of the largest manufacturer of SIM cards in the world, stealing encryption keys used to protect the privacy of cellphone communications across the globe"

“Once you have the keys, decrypting traffic is trivial,”

Would not at all surprise me.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article … owden.html


Gemalto is doing a press conference on this in a few hours...... Not sure when though. Just heard the tail end of this on the radio and they made mention of this. 

Gemalto is the company making the SIM cards in question..