As per report from New delhi it was stated that the congress on sunday claimed that senior party leader priyanka gandhi had received a message from whatsapp informing her that her phone was suspected to have been hacked.
Meanwhile as per report the party, however, did not say exactly when gandhi received the message. "I want to tell that Priyanka gandhi also received a similar message from whatsapp around the same time," congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said, responding to a question about praful patel and mamata banerjee receiving messages from the Facebook-owned messaging platform.
Moreover gandhi received the message around the same time when whatsapp was sending similar messages to those whose phones were allegedly hacked, Surjewala said. The home ministry had in an RTI reply said that it had “no information” on whether the government had purchased the spyware from the Israeli firm. The government has sought an explanation from whatsapp on the alleged surveillance of phones by november 4, but the messaging platform said that it had informed the Indian authorities about the privacy breach in May itself.
