'Apple Has Clarified...': BJP's Amit Malviya On Opposition's iPhone Hacking Charge

Multiple political leaders have alleged that their Apple devices have been the victim of alleged hacking.

File photo of BJP IT Cell chief Amit Malviya

Source : PTI

New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) IT Cell chief Amit Malviya on Tuesday responded to the opposition’s claim that their phones were hacked by the Centre, saying that the "opposition has jumped at something without even evaluating what it could be."

Speaking to PTI, Malviya said, “Apple has clarified that this is a notification that they have sent out to users across 150 countries. They have also not attributed it to a particular state agency or any other such initiative.

"It’s quite obvious that the opposition has jumped at something without even evaluating what it could be, they did so during the time of ‘Pegasus’, several statements were made but no one came forward when the Supreme Court appointed a committee for their phones to be investigated,” he further stated on the Apple alert row.

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Multiple political leaders have alleged that their Apple devices have been the victim of alleged hacking. The leaders shared the screenshot of the warning received on their Apple devices.

Soon after a major controversy erupted between the ruling party and the opposition leaders over the alleged hacking of their phones, Apple officially announced that it does not attribute the threat notifications to any specific state-sponsored attacker.

"State-sponsored attackers are very well-funded and sophisticated, and their attacks evolve over time. Detecting such attacks relies on threat intelligence signals that are often imperfect and incomplete. It's possible that some Apple threat notifications may be false alarms, or that some attacks are not detected," Apple said in a statement.

It further said that they are unable to provide information about what causes them to issue threat notifications, as that may help state-sponsored attackers adapt their behaviour to evade detection in the future.

Earlier in the day, several opposition leaders of different political parties including Shashi Tharoor, Raghav Chadha, Priyanka Chaturvedi, Asaduddin Owaisi and others alleged that they have received the warning message.

The leaders shared the purported screenshots of the warning received on their devices.