A leaked arsenal of hacking tools allegedly belonging to the National Security Agency ( NSA ) shows the US spy agency infiltrated the servers of a major Pakistani cellular service provider . The data dump Attack.Databreach , publicly released by the ShadowBrokers hacking group earlier this week , includes alleged digital weapons and notes shared by NSA operators about their access inside the servers of a Pakistani mobile network . Notes contained in the massive dump Attack.Databreach of encrypted data , which is still being analysed by network security researchers , include details of how NSA used the exploits to infiltrate cellular operators in Pakistan . One snippet from the leak , several terabytes in size , includes at least 14 lines mentioning different servers operated by a major Pakistani cellular network . The snippet , analysed by a security researcher who goes by the name X0rz , appears to show NSA operators sharing a step-by-step technical guide on how to hack into the servers . `` Try one of the following…old way , may not work on new machines , '' says one section of the snippet . Another section appears to show methods to retrieve Attack.Databreach call logs of users of the Pakistani cellular service . `` If searching for LACs and cell id 's , use the format in the documentation…if searching for phone numbers , use the normal format , '' it says . Hundreds of NSA cyber weapons variants publicly released including code showing hacking of Pakistan mobile system https : //t.co/bL833ktQpm In a tweet , Wikileaks claimed the leaked `` NSA cyber weapons variants '' include `` code showing hacking of Pakistan mobile system '' . The data dump Attack.Databreach was publicly released earlier this week by the ShadowBrokers hacking group after it failed to auction the arsenal of hacking tools . In a lengthy anonymous blog post , the group claimed it was releasing the files as a `` form of protest '' after losing faith in the leadership of US President Donald Trump . ShadowBrokers had announced the auction for the alleged NSA cyber weapons in August last year . The authenticity of the code being NSA software was later confirmed by documents provided by whistleblower and former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden to the Intercept . In the leak Attack.Databreach of top-secret documents , Snowden released Attack.Databreach a classified draft NSA manual on how to implant the SECONDDATE malware – malicious code used to monitor or control someone else 's computer . The draft NSA manual contained instructions telling NSA operators to use a specific string of characters associated with the SECONDDATE malware program . The documents revealed at least `` two documented cases of SECONDDATE being used to successfully infect computers overseas '' including `` successful attacks against computer systems in…Pakistan . '' A report by The Intercept claimed NSA hackers used the malicious program to breach targets in Pakistan ’ s NTC VIP Division , which contained documents pertaining to `` the backbone of Pakistan ’ s Green Line communications network '' used by the `` civilian and military leadership '' .