According to the proofs which can be heard in the web, telecom giants helped Indian intelligence agencies to spy on the members of the comission focused on American-Chineese relations.
The information was revealed on Saturday 7th by the Indian group "Lords of Dharamraja" who on their website had published documents according to which Apple, Nokia and Research in Motion (Blackberry producer) had helped the services to break into the mobile phones belonging to the comission members.
The "eavesdroppes" had started on April 2011. United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission is a governmental institution created in 2000 in the US is responsible for monitoring and investigating national security and trade issues between the United States and People's Republic of China.
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The reasons why the companies had helped the Indian intelligence remain unknown. One hypothesis is that this helped them to enter an enormous Indian market of more than billion consumers. It is also important to say, that the New Delhi authorities had given permission to their major spy agency RAW to spy on electronic communication of all their citizens.
It is still unknownd if the Indian hackers' allegations are trustful. Critics point that there are several uncertainities about their "break in". First of all, "The Lords of Dharamraja" are claiming that they have used a source code from anti-virus system Norton Security to break into intelligence servers. This information is being questioned by the producer - Symantec Company, which had also stated that the case will be investigated. The second reason is the information about the "back door" existing in the smartphones - there is an open discussion in the web about this and the opinions are split. There is also a third reason - the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission reports are public and available in the web, which makes the sense of such risky actions made by Indian services questionable. On the other hand the intelligence services can be interested in some informations which would not be revealed in official reports.
If the allegations of "The Lords of Dharamraja" are real this would mean this year's first scandal revealed by the group of hackers. We could notice a growing influence of such people whether it was by the portal Wikileaks or famous Anonymous group. Also in Germany a case of a special computer virus created by the government agency was revealed by the group of hackers called Chaos Computer Club.
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