His article said that the NSA, with the help of the British government, was surreptitiously tapping into undersea fiber-optic cables to copy data from Yahoo and Google networks. While we could not verify whether the NSA was targeting our cables, some of Snowden’s documents also referred to our consumer email and messaging services.27 That made us suspect we had been tapped as well. To this day, the US and British governments have not spoken publicly to deny hacking into data cables.
