Opposition leaders target Modi govt, fume over alleged iPhone hacking attempts

New Delhi: Mallikarjun Kharge, Rahul Gandhi’s close aides, K C Venugopal, Sitaram Yechury, Akhilesh Yadav and Mahua Moitra were among a host of prominent Opposition functionaries who received messages from ‘Apple’ on Tuesday warning them of “state-sponsored attackers trying to remotely compromise” their iPhones.

Asaduddin Owaisi (AIMIM), Mahua Moitra (Trinamool Congress), Raghav Chadha (AAP), Priyanka Chaturvedi (Shiv Sena-UBT), TS Singh Deo, Pawan Khera, A Revanth Reddy, Rizwan Arshad, Supriya Shrinate (all Congress) and KT Rama Rao (BRS), as well as journalists Siddharth Varadarajan, Sriram Karri, Ravi Nair, Revathi and Observer Research Foundation president Samir Saran also received the alerts.