Hello and welcome to ABP Live Apple iPhone Hacking Alert Live blog, please follow this space for all the latest information and updates. On Tuesday, several MPs from the Opposition parties flagged that they received an alert from Apple stating that “state-sponsored attackers may be targeting” their iPhones. Several MPs from Opposition parties like Shiv Sena (UBT), Congress, Aam Aadmi Party, Trinamool Congress took to X to share the alert that they received.
The alert that “state-sponsored attackers may be targeting your iPhone” was received by most of the Parliamentarians, on their iPhones handsets from manufacturer Apple, who took to X to raise the issue.
Trinamool Congress MP, Mahua Moitra shared the screenshot of the alert saying, “Received text & email from Apple warning me Govt trying to hack into my phone & email” as she lambasted the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Union Home Minister Amit Shah over the alleged snooping.
Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi said she also received the alert and slammed the Center for “large-scale surveillance”.
“The way I received a warning last night, shows that this is a sponsored program of the Central Government and that I need to take precautions.”
“The warning clearly says that these attacks are ‘state-sponsored’…Why are the leaders of the Opposition only getting such messages? This shows that large-scale surveillance is underway. There should be an investigation on this, and the Center needs to give a clarification on the same,” she added.
Congress leaders Pawan Khera and Shashi Tharoor, All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen chief and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi, Aam Aadmi Party leader Raghav Chadha, Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Sitaram Yechury also shared that they received similar alerts. Moitra said Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav and some people from the office of Rahul Gandhi were also on the list of such people.
