The NSA and GCHQ have tracked and monitored the activities of independent and nation-state hackers in order to gather information on targets and pilfer the stolen data from hackers’ archives. The agencies labeled all kind of stolen data to identify and categorize victims. The state-sponsored hackers also targeted a large number of human rights organizations, diplomatic corporations, democracy activists and even journalists. The NSA had also run an open source intelligence gathering service known as, a program created by GCHQ to monitor and index public discussion on Twitter.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2015/02/spy-agencies-thehackernews.html