American journalist Glenn Greenwald has been charged with cybercrime in Brazil over his alleged involvement in the hacking of messages exchanged between the country’s government officials.
According to a criminal complaint released by the Brazilian Public Prosecutor’s Office (pdf), Greenwald is accused of assisting, encouraging, and guiding a “criminal organization” that hacked into the cellphones of Bolsonaro government officials who oversaw court proceedings in the country’s major corruption cases. In multiple stories on the investigative news website The Intercept Brasil, which he co-founded, Greenwald made public messages he obtained through hacking.
