MoS Chandrashekhar rejects Apple hack report as inaccurate

Union Minister of State for Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar has rebutted “The Washington Post” report on the Indian government allegedly targeting Apple after the company warned independent Indian journalists and opposition party politicians that government hackers may have tried to break into their iPhones and called it “half facts, fully embellished”.

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The Union Minister further called the report “terrible” and “tiresome”. Taking it on his social media X, Rajiv Chandrasekhar stated, “Rebutting @washingtonpost’s terrible storytelling is tiresome, but someone has to do it. This story is half facts, fully embellished.” In a story published on December 27 in association with Amnesty the Post had reported that certain journalists had been targeted with the spyware on their