- By Meryl Sebastian
- BBC News, Kochi
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi (centre) said some people in his office got the alert
A row has broken out in India after several opposition leaders and journalists received a warning from Apple about “state-sponsored attackers” targeting their phone.
The alert did not specify who the attackers could be.
The leaders, including some MPs, have accused the federal government of trying to hack into their devices.
A minister dismissed the allegations, terming them “destructive politics”.
But he added that the government will “investigate to get to the bottom of these notifications”.
So far, around a dozen opposition politicians have confirmed that they got the message from Apple. The list has MPs including Shashi Tharoor and KC Venugopal from the Congress party, Mahua Moitra from the Trinamool Congress and Priyanka Chaturvedi from the Shiv Sena UBT.
Federal information technology minister Ashwini Vaishnaw posted on X (formerly Twitter) that information given by Apple about such notifications “seems vague and non-specific in nature”,
