Meity official states that Apple officials hold meeting with CERT-In regarding warning notification issue.
On Thursday, a senior government official stated that a team from Apple’s cyber security department has held a meeting with watchdog CERT-In to address the matter of warning notifications being sent to certain opposition leaders.
Last month, several opposition leaders claimed to have received a warning from Apple about “state-sponsored attackers attempting to remotely compromise” their iPhones and alleged government hacking.
Minister for Electronics and Information Technology (Meity) Rajeev Chandrasekhar had said that Apple will have to respond to the announcement made by their global cyber security team.
The Apple team was scheduled to meet with the Indian cyber security organization CERT-In by the end of November.
“Apple team met CERT-In. Now CERT-In has to submit its report based on its findings,” the official said.
He said there is no deadline for submitting the report and CERT-In will submit the report after its investigation.
Members of Parliament who received an alert on their iPhone include Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge, party leaders Shashi Tharoor, Pawan Khera, K C Venugopal, Supriya Shrinate, T S Singhdeo and Bhupinder S Hooda; Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra, CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury and SP leader Akhilesh Yadav.
Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi, Aam Aadmi Party’s Raghav Chadha, AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi and some aides of Congress MP Rahul Gandhi also received such alerts.
