THE US NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY (NSA) planned to hijack the Google Play store in an attempt to spy on millions of Android users, a report has claimed.
Published by The Intercept and CBC News on Wednesday, the report was based on a document leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
It said that the NSA developed the plan with allies in Britain, Canada, New Zealand and Australia, a group known as the Five Eyes alliance, to plant spyware on smartphones via data links to app stores operated by Google and Samsung.
