The ongoing controversy over the Whatsapp data breach took a massive political turn on Sunday after the Congress party alleged that party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s phone was also snooped.
Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala on Sunday said that Priyanka was contacted by WhatsApp to inform that her phone was targeted by the Israeli spyware.
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“I want to tell that Priyanka Gandhi also received a similar message from WhatsApp around the same time,” Surjewala said.
The party, however, did not say exactly when Gandhi received the message.
Earlier two other opposition politicians, NCP leader Praful Patel and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had claimed that they had received messages from the Facebook-owned messaging platform.
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It was first reported that several human rights activists and academicians and journalists were the targets of the shopping. Later it came to light that a total of 121 Indians were among those hit by the pegasus spyware which is spread through Whatsapp.
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WhatsApp had said it was suing NSO Group, an Israeli surveillance firm for the spyware attack.
The IT ministry which admitted that Whatsapp had informed about the breach in May, however, claimed that the information was inadequate and incomplete.
IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad had said that the government was concerned at the breach of privacy of citizens and have asked Whatsapp to explain the kind of breach and what it is doing to safeguard the privacy of millions of Indian citizens.
NSO Group has maintained that it hasn’t violated any law and insisted that its software was licensed only to vetted and legitimate government agencies.
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