Morocco allegedly used computer control software from the private company Hacking Team to spy on activities relating to the question of Western Sahara by Secr& General Secretariat of the UN before the Israeli Pegasus.

Confidential documents will have proved that Morocco paid more than 3 million euros to HackingTeam, with 19 million euros for the Moroccan DST, 1.93 million euros for the CSDN (Supreme Defense Council, chaired by Mohammed VI) and is the 3rd largest customer of this Italian company.

400 gigabytes of information were taken from the Hacking Team site and published by anonymous hackers. Similarly, some documents seem to come from other departments under the UN General Secretariat, including: the minutes of meetings of the UN Secretary General with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ramtan Lamamra, and with the President of Chad, Idriss Déby. According to the NGO Reporters Without Borders, a few days after the media received the Breaking Borders Award 2012 by Global Voices and Google

According to the NGO, Reporters Without Borders, the Hacking Team software was identified on the office computers of the Moroccan news site Mamfakinch, a few days ago After a media outlet received the 2012 Breaking Borders Award by Global Voices and Google, Hacking Team's software was identified on the desktop computers of the Moroccan news site Mamfakinch.