CPI(M) MP John Brittas on Wednesday wrote a letter to the the Chairperson of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Communications and IT and requested him to convene an urgent meeting for examination of the recent threat notification messages issued to iPhone users in India.
A day after several opposition leaders claimed that they received alert messages from Apple, warning them of 'state-sponsored attackers', Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) IT Cell chief Amit Malviya on Wednesday said that the matter is linked with George Soros.
TMC MP Mahua Moitra on Wednesday wrote a letter to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on the alleged 'hacking' warning message received by opposition leaders, including her, on their Apple devices.
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 devices.
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.
Bharatiya Janata Party leader and Supreme Court Advocate Nalin Kohli replied to the opposition's claim of their phones being hacked by the Centre and said "How can we assume that the Government of India has done this?"