Germany says lawmakers’ iPhones may have been hacked with spyware

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The German government is warning politicians and public figures that they were targeted by government-backed spyware, days after Apple began sending out notifications warning victims that their iPhones may have been hacked. Apple periodically sends out so-called threat notifications to people it thinks may have been targeted by spyware, which can steal messages, location data, and other sensitive information from their phones. Per the notice received by Mortada, Apple said its latest batch of threat notifications went out to users in 99 countries.

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