At the end of March 2014, Der Spiegel and The Intercept revealed, primarily based on a sequence of classified data files from the archive furnished to reporters by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, content related to espionage efforts by GCHQ and NSA in Germany. The NSA, in an operation named "Shotgiant", was able to accessibility Huawei's e mail archive and the source code for Huawei's communications products.