NSA reportedly snooped on online gaming communities

 

British and American intelligence agencies infiltrated online gaming communities, searching for what they thought could be terrorist and criminal groups lurking in the digital realm of orcs, elves and player-created avatars.
According to documents provided by whisteblower Edward Snowden, the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) analysts in 2007 became convinced that online communities like the World of Warcraft and Second Life had become hubs for the secret transfer of information and money between wanted organizations, according to reports published Monday