PRESS RELEASE: Privacy International and five internet and communications providers challenge British Government's bulk hacking abroad before the European Court of Human Rights | Privacy International

Before we brought our case before the IPT, GCHQ had refused to "confirm or deny" whether it had ever hacked a computer.

Over the course of the proceedings, the British Government admitted to hacking to:

obtain information from a particular device, server, or network create or modify information on a device carry out intrusive activity

The British Government further admitted that it may also undertake hacking against an entire computer network and that it may carry out "persistent" operations, which cover an extended period of time.