It does appear they have already been publicized as a target at the end of March this year: "The 26-page document explicitly names three of the German companies

It does appear they have already been publicized as a target at the end of March this year: "The 26-page document explicitly names three of the German companies targeted for surveillance: Stellar, Cetel and IABG." ... "In the case of Stellar, the top secret GCHQ paper includes the names and email addresses of 16 employees, including CEO Christian Steffen. In addition, it also provides a list of the most-important customers and partners. Contacted by SPIEGEL, Stellar CEO Steffen said he had not been aware of any attempts by intelligence services to infiltrate or hack his company. 'I am shocked,' he said." [0] As far as I can tell, the actual documents were just publicly released today. I suppose the point of the video, as noted by other comments here, is to show real human beings finding their name and email address in a top-secret document directing they be found and "tasked". Most of the filming may have been done back in March, and it seems they were made aware back then, and have hopefully taken steps to re-secure things since then. I'd be interested in evidence that they should have specifically known about this earlier, though. [0] http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/gchq-and-nsa-targeted-private-german-companies-a-961444.html http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/gchq-and-nsa-tar...