Germany says lawmakers’ iPhones may have been hacked with spyware

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.

Germany’s federal cybersecurity office, known as the BSI, said in a note over the weekend that it had become aware that members of the Bundestag, Germany’s parliament, and other unnamed notable individuals, had received warnings from Apple that they may have been targeted by cyberattacks.

Per the Financial Times, German government spokesperson Stefan Kornelius said the government in Berlin was “taking the incident and the warning very seriously,” but he did not say who in the federal government had been targeted, including whether German Chancellor Friedrich Merz was among them.

Apple periodically sends out so-called threat notificationsto people it thinks may have been targeted by spyware, which can steal messages, location data, and other sensitive information...

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