No economic espionage? NSA docs show US spied on Brazil oil giant Petrobras

Brazil's biggest television network Globo TV reported that the information about the NSA spying on Petroleo Brasileiro SA came from Glenn Greenwald, the American journalist who first published secrets leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden.

Globo TV aired slides from an NSA presentation from 2012 that revealed the agency’s ability to gain access to private networks of companies such as Petrobras and Google Inc. 

Petrobras is known to have discovered some of the world's biggest offshore oil reserves in recent years, some of the new reserves are estimated to be around as 100 billion barrels of oil, according to Rio de Janeiro State University, none of the leaked slides went into the reasons behind the NSA spying on the Brazilian firm.

The US spy agency then reportedly shared the gathered information with the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, the new report about US spying on Brazil could intensify the already existing tensions between Brazil and US. 

source rt.com