Snowden documents reveal NSA bid to hack the world's cellphone networks

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The NSA has worked for years to hack into cellphone networks worldwide, trying to bypass and undermine their security, according to Edward Snowden documents revealed by The Intercept on Thursday.

The documents reveal a top secret operation codenamed AURORAGOLD. The operation's aim: collect information about cellphone carriers' internal systems to find vulnerabilities that can be exploited by the NSA to hack into cell networks

Thanks to AURORAGOLD, the agency had obtained technical information on about 70 percent of cellphone networks worldwide, as of May 2012, according to The Intercept .