Google, Yahoo Data Centers May Have Been Infiltrated By The NSA

The National Security Agency is coming under fire again after it was revealed that the agency may have secretly broken into data centers from both Google GOOG and Yahoo YHOO.

In short, the NSA may have breached the main communications links that connect Google's global data centers. Yahoo has reportedly experienced a similar breach.

This is the sort of thing that Snowden warned about several months ago when he first revealed the details of the NSA's top-secret activity.

"Even if you're not doing anything wrong, you're being watched and recorded," Snowden told The Guardian last June. "The storage capability of these systems increases every year consistently by orders of magnitude, to where it's getting to the point -- you don't have to have done anything wrong, you simply have to eventually fall under suspicion from somebody, even by a wrong call.

In an effort to prevent future security breaches from the NSA or any other government organization, Google has said that it is racing to encrypt the links between its data centers.

Disclosure: At the time of this writing, Louis Bedigian had no position in the equities mentioned in this report.