Huawei accuses US agents of hacking into its servers as it launches lawsuit against federal ban on gear
- Huawei ups the pressure on the US over espionage attacks by citing Snowden leaks about NSA activity
- Firm’s rotating chairman Guo Ping claims the US had stolen emails and source code
Huawei Technologies, which on Thursday slapped the US government with a lawsuit in a bid to overturn a federal ban on its gear, also accused the US of previously hacking into its servers though it provided no fresh evidence to support the charge.
“The US government has long branded Huawei a threat. It has hacked our servers and stolen our emails and source code,” Guo Ping, Huawei’s rotating chairman, said in a press conference in Shenzhen on Thursday to announce the lawsuit against the US.
Guo also spoke out about the US and its attitude towards cybersecurity at a recent high profile industry event.
“PRISM, PRISM on the wall, who is the most trustworthy of them all?” Guo said last month when speaking about the challenges of cybersecurity during a keynote address at Mobile World Congress 2019 in Barcelona.
PRISM is the code name for an NSA program which collected internet communications from various internet companies in the US. The program came to light when classified documents about it were leaked to journalists by Snowden.
Song Liuping, Huawei’s chief legal officer, referred reporters to the leaked documents on the PRISM program by Snowden as a reference for Huawei’s claims about US cyberattacks on the company.
