A timeline of Edward Snowden leaks – Business Insider

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In June 2013, The Guardian reported the first leak based on top-secret documents that then 29-year-old Edward Snowden stole from the National Security Agency. At the time, Snowden worked as an intelligence contractor for Booz Allen Hamilton in Hawaii.

That leak would certainly not be the last. In the years since, journalists have released more than 7,000 top-secret documents that Snowden entrusted them with, which some believe is less than 1% of the entire archive.

Now, with the film "Snowden" premiering Friday, it's worth taking a look back at what secrets Snowden actually revealed. We've compiled every single leak that came out in the first year of the Snowden saga, though there were many more that came later.

Snowden downloaded up to 1.5 million files, according to national intelligence officials, before jetting from Hawaii to Hong Kong to meet with journalists Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras. After he handed off his treasure trove of documents, he flew from Hong Kong and later became stranded in Moscow. His future was far from certain, as the journalists he trusted started revealing his secrets.

Here is everything that Snowden's leaks revealed between 2013 and 2014:

With a top-secret court order, the NSA collected the telephone records from millions of Verizon customers. June 6, 2013

The Guardian The NSA accessed and collected data through back doors into US internet companies such as Google and Facebook with a program called Prism. June 7, 2013

An 18-page presidential memo shows Obama ordering intelligence officials to draw up a list of overseas targets for cyberattacks. June 7, 2013

Documents reveal the NSA's Boundless Informant program, which gives the agency near real-time ability to understand how much intelligence coverage there is on certain areas through use of a "heat map." June 8, 2013

The NSA was hacking computers in Hong Kong and mainland China, few of which were military systems. June 13, 2013

Britain's GCHQ (its intelligence agency) intercepted phone and internet communications of foreign politicians attending two G-20 meetings in London in 2009. June 16, 2013

Top-secret procedures show steps the NSA must take to target and collect data from "non-US persons" and how it must minimize data collected on US citizens. June 20, 2013

Britain's GCHQ taps fiber-optic cables to collect and store global email messages, Facebook posts, internet histories, and calls, and then shares the data with the NSA. June 21, 2013

The NSA has a program codenamed EvilOlive that collects and stores large quantities of Americans' internet metadata, which contains only certain information about online content. Email metadata, for example, reveals the sender and recipient addresses and time but not content or subject. June 27, 2013

Until 2011, the Obama administration permitted the NSA's continued collection of vast amounts of Americans' email and internet metadata under a Bush-era program called Stellar Wind. June 27, 2013

The US government bugged the offices of the European Union in New York, Washington, and Brussels. June 29, 2013

The US government spies on at least 38 foreign embassies and missions, using a variety of electronic surveillance methods. June 30, 2013

The NSA spies on millions of phone calls, emails, and text messages of ordinary German citizens. June 30, 2013

Using a program called Fairview, the NSA intercepts internet and phone-call data of Brazilian citizens. July 6, 2013

Monitoring stations set up in Australia and New Zealand help feed data back to NSA's XKeyscore program. July 6, 2013

The NSA conducts surveillance on citizens in a number of Latin American countries, including Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, and others. The agency also sought information on oil, energy, and trade. July 9, 2013

The Washington Post publishes a new slide detailing NSA's "Upstream" program of collecting communications from tech companies through fiber-optic cables to then feed into its Prism database. July 10, 2013

Germany's Federal Intelligence Service, BND, helps contribute data to the NSA's XKeyscore program. July 20, 2013

The Guardian

NSA analysts, using the XKeyscore program, can search through enormous databases of emails, online chats, and browsing histories of targets. July 31, 2013

The US government paid Britain's GCHQ roughly $155 million over three years to gain access and influence over its spying programs. August 1, 2013

Seven of the world's leading telecommunications companies provide GCHQ with secret, unlimited access to their network of undersea cables. August 2, 2013

The NSA provided surveillance to US diplomats in order to give them the upper hand in negotiations at the UN Summit of the Americas. August 2, 2013

The NSA sifts through vast amounts of Americans' email and text communications going in and out of the country. August 8, 2013

Internal NSA document reveals an agency "loophole" that allows a secret backdoor for the agency to search its databases for US citizens' emails and phone calls without a warrant. August 9, 2013

NSA collection on Japan is reportedly maintained at the same priority as France and Germany. August 12, 2013

The NSA broke privacy rules thousands of times per year, according to an internal audit. August 15, 2013

NSA analysts revealed to have sometimes spied on love interests, with the practice common enough to have coined the term LOVEINT, or love intercepts. (It was unclear whether this report came from Snowden docs.) August 23, 2013

Britain runs a secret internet-monitoring station in the Middle East to intercept emails, phone calls, and web traffic, The Independent reports, citing Snowden documents. Snowden denies giving The Independent any documents, alleging the UK government leaked them in an attempt to discredit him. August 23, 2013

The top-secret US intelligence "black budget" is revealed for 2013, with 16 spy agencies having a budget of $52.6 billion. August 29, 2013

Martin Grandjean

Expanding upon data gleaned from the "black budget," the NSA is found to be paying hundreds of millions of dollars each year to US companies for access to their networks. August 29, 2013

The US carried out 231 offensive cyberattacks in 2011. August 30, 2013

The NSA hacked into Qatar-based media network Al Jazeera's internal communications system. August 31, 2013

The NSA spied on former Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and Mexican President Enrique Pea Nieto (then a candidate). September 1, 2013

Using a "man in the middle" attack, NSA spied on Google, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications, and the Brazilian oil company Petrobras. September 2, 2013

A US intelligence "black budget" reveals Al Qaeda's effort to jam, hack, and/or shoot down US surveillance drones. September 3, 2013

A joint investigation by ProPublica, The New York Times, and The Guardian finds the NSA is winning its war against internet encryption with supercomputers, technical know-how, and court orders. September 5, 2013

The NSA has the ability to access user data for most major smartphones on the market, including Apple iPhones, BlackBerrys, and Google Android phones. September 7, 2013

The NSA shares raw intelligence data (with information about American citizens) to Israel with an information-sharing agreement. September 11, 2013

The NSA monitors banks and credit institutions for a comprehensive database that can track the global flow of money. September 16, 2013

Britain's GCHQ launched a cyberattack against Belgacom, a partly state-owned Belgian telecommunications company. September 20, 2013

The NSA spies on Indian diplomats and other officials in an effort to gain insight into the country's nuclear and space programs. September 23, 2013

The NSA's internal "wiki" website characterizes political and legal opposition to drone attacks as part of "propaganda campaigns" from America's "adversaries." September 25, 2013

Since 2010, the NSA has used metadata augmented with other data from public, commercial, and other sources to create sophisticated graphs that map Americans' social connections. September 28, 2013

The NSA stores a massive amount of internet metadata from internet users, regardless of whether they are being targeted, for up to one year in a database called Marina. September 30, 2013

The NSA and GCHQ worked together to compromise the anonymous web-browsing Tor network. October 4, 2013

Canada's signals intelligence agency, CSEC, spied on phone and computer networks of Brazil's Ministry of Mines and Energy and shared the information with the "Five Eyes" intelligence services of the US, Canada, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand. October 7, 2013

A reflection of Charlie Miller is pictured on his computer screen in his home-office in Wildwood, Missouri April 30, 2013. Miller is a security researcher at Twitter who previously worked for the National Security Agency (NSA). REUTERS/Sarah Conard

The NSA collected more than 250 million email contact lists from services such as Yahoo and Gmail. October 14, 2013

NSA surveillance was revealed to play a key role in targeting for overseas drone strikes. October 16, 2013

The NSA spied on French citizens, companies, and diplomats, and monitored communications at France's embassy in Washington and its UN office in New York. October 21, 2013

The NSA tapped the mobile phone of German Chancellor Angela Merkel. October 23, 2013

The NSA spied on Italian citizens, companies, and government officials. October 24, 2013

The NSA monitored the phone calls of 35 world leaders and encouraged other government agencies to share their "Rolodexes" of foreign politicians so it could monitor them. October 25, 2013

The NSA spied on Spanish leaders and citizens. October 25, 2013

The NSA stations surveillance teams at 80 locations around the world. October 27, 2013

A joint program between the NSA and Britain's GCHQ called Muscular infiltrates and copies data flowing out of Yahoo and Google's overseas data centers. One slide boasted of "SSL added and removed here!" with a smiley face. October 30, 2013

The NSA spied on the Vatican. (The Panorama website did not cite Snowden as the source.) October 30, 2013

Australia's intelligence service has surveillance teams stationed in Australian embassies around Asia and the Pacific. October 31, 2013

One document reveals tech companies play a key role in NSA intelligence reports and data collection. November 1, 2013

Britain's GCHQ and other European spy agencies work together to conduct mass surveillance. November 1, 2013

Strategic missions of the NSA are revealed, which include combatting terrorism and nuclear proliferation, as well as pursuing US diplomatic and economic advantage. November 2, 2013

Australia's Defense Signals Directorate and the NSA worked together to spy on Indonesia during a UN climate change conference in 2007. November 2, 2013

The NSA spied on OPEC. November 11, 2013

GCHQ monitored the booking systems of 350 high-end hotels with a program called Royal Concierge, which sniffed for booking confirmations sent to diplomatic email addresses that would be flagged for further surveillance. November 17, 2013

Australia's DSD spied on the cellphones of top Indonesian officials, including the president, first lady, and several cabinet ministers. November 18, 2013

The NSA spied on millions of cellphone calls in Norway in one 30-day period. November 19, 2013

The British government struck a secret deal with the NSA to share phone, internet, and email records of UK citizens. November 20, 2013

REUTERS/Jason Reed

A NSA strategy document reveals the agency's goal to acquire data from "anyone, anytime, anywhere" and expand its already broad legal powers. November 22, 2013

The NSA infected more than 50,000 computer networks worldwide with malware designed to steal sensitive information. November 23, 2013

The NSA gathers evidence of visits to pornographic websites as part of a plan to discredit Muslim jihadists. November 26, 2013

Working with Canadian intelligence, the NSA spied on foreign diplomats at the G-8 and G-20 summits in Toronto in 2010. November 28, 2013

The Netherlands' intelligence service gathers data on web-forum users and shares it with the NSA. November 30, 2013

A draft document reveals Australia offered to share information collected on ordinary Australian citizens with the NSA and other "Five Eyes" partners. December 1, 2013

The NSA siphons billions of foreign cellphone location records into its database. December 4, 2013

Widespread spying is revealed in Italy, with the NSA spying on ordinary Italians as well as diplomats and political leaders. December 5, 2013

Swedish intelligence was revealed to be spying on Russian leaders, then passing it on to the NSA. December 5, 2013

A document reveals the extent of the relationship between NSA and Canadian counterparts, which includes information-sharing and Canada allowing NSA analysts access to covert sites it sets up. December 9, 2013

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Intelligence operatives with NSA and GCHQ infiltrate online video games such as "World of Warcraft" in an effort to catch and stop terrorist plots. December 9, 2013

Piggybacking on online "cookies" acquired by Google that advertisers use to track consumer preferences, the NSA is able to locate new targets for hacking. December 10, 2013

The NSA has the ability to decrypt the common A5/1 cellphone encryption cipher. December 13, 2013

The NSA secretly paid the computer security firm RSA $10 million to implement a "back door" into its encryption. December 20, 2013

A document reveals how Britain's GCHQ spied on Germany, Israel, the European Union, and several nongovernmental organizations. December 20, 2013

With a $79.7 million research program, the NSA is working on a quantum computer that would be able to crack most types of encryption. January 2, 2014

Using radio transmitters on tiny circuit boards or USB drives, the NSA can gain access to computers not connected to the internet. January 14, 2014

The NSA scoops "pretty much everything it can" in untargeted collection of foreign text messages for its Dishfire database. January 16, 2014

The NSA scoops up personal data mined from smartphone apps such as Angry Birds. January 27, 2014

A GCHQ program called Squeaky Dolphin monitors YouTube, Facebook, and Blogger for "broad real-time monitoring of online activity." January 27, 2014

The NSA spied on negotiators during the 2009 UN climate change conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. January 29, 2014

CSEC, Canada's national cryptologic agency, tested a pilot program with the NSA that captured metadata from users who had logged into free airport Wi-Fi. January 30, 2014

Britain's GCHQ waged war on hacker groups such as Anonymous and Lulzsec, mounting Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks and infiltrating their chat rooms. February 5, 2014

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