RIO DE JANEIRO, July 6 (Xinhua) -- New leaked information has confirmed that Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff and even her cabinet members had been spied on by the U.S. government, which drew extensive attention of the Brazilian media over the weekend.

On Saturday, WikiLeaks published a list of phone lines that were reportedly tapped by the U.S. government, including Rousseff's numbers at her office, the numbers of her assistants and secretary, of several ministers (including a general responsible for the president's personal security) and even Rousseff's line on the presidential plane, daily O Estado de Sao Paulo reported.

According to WikiLeaks, the espionage was carried out at the beginning of the Rousseff administration in 2011. Rousseff was re-elected in late 2014 for a second four-year term.