NEW DELHI: Israeli Agencies were spying on Indian Congress leader PriyankaGandhi, Indian media report has revealed.
The Congress on Sunday alleged that when WhatsApp sent messages to allthose whose phones were hacked, one such message was also received by partygeneral secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.
Randeep Surjewala, addressing a press conference, said that Gandhi hadreceived a message from the Facebook-owned messaging platform informing herthat her phone had also been targeted with the Israeli snooping software atthe same time when other users were notified.
This comes after WhatsApp filed a legal suit in a US Federal Court againstan Israeli firm – NSO Group – alleging that it was behind cyber-attacksthat infected devices with malicious software.
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In its complaint against the Israeli firm, WhatsApp claimed that the firminstalled spyware on users’ phones and targeted human rights defenders,journalists, political dissidents, diplomats and government officials.
