Belgian telecommunications firm Belgacom has played down revelations it was hacked by British intelligence.
The state-owned company, which supplies services to EU institutions and whose subsidiary, Bics, handles data transfers between Europe and the Middle East, sent two top men to answer questions at an EU parliament hearing on Thursday (3 October).
Its secretary general, Dirk Lybaert, told MEPs: "This is a kind of attack that a single company or country would be unable to with...
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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.