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Apple Warns Indian Opposition Leaders of State-Sponsored iPhone Attacks

By Adv Shoeb Hakim1 Nov 20231 min read

Rahul Gandhi, Indian opposition leader, said in a media briefing Tuesday that his team had received the said alert from Apple.

Shashi Tharoor, a key figure from the Congress party; Akhilesh Yadav, the head of the Samajwadi Party; Mahua Moitra, a national representative from the All India Trinamool Congress; Priyanka Chaturvedi of Shiv Sena, a party with notable influence in Maharashtra reported that they too had been notified by Apple regarding a potential security attack on their iPhones. Asaduddin Owaisi, the leader of the All-India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM); RaRaghav Chadha from AAP, originating from an anti-corruption crusade a decade prior and later securing a political foothold in the national capital region; Sitaram Yechury, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India; alongside Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera were also impacted, they said.

Journalists Siddharth Varadarajan and Sriram Karri, along with Observer Research Foundation (ORF) India President Samir Saran shared that they had been served with identical warnings from Apple.

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Shoeb Hakim

Shoeb Hakim

I train the people who protect India. And I defend those who need protection. Previously Head of AML & Client ID (AVP), Credit Suisse. Police faculty since 1995.

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