UK Spy Agency Hacks Millions of Webcam Users

New revelations have surfaced about the ability of spy agencies to monitor ordinary people online.

Not only can agencies read your emails, some of them have also been capturing images from web cameras.

The British Surveillance Agency known as GCHQ, with the help of the U.S. National Security Agency, intercepted and saved the webcam images from millions of Internet users, including people who weren't suspected of doing anything wrong.

The London Guardian reports the spy agency randomly collected still images from people using Yahoo's webcam chats.

For six months during 2008, the program, officially known as Optic Nerve, gathered images from nearly 2 million Yahoo accounts around the world. Many of them were sexually explicit.

Yahoo told the Guardian it didn't know anything about the program, adding that the program was "a whole new level of violation of our users' privacy."