WARSAW : An opposition-linked Polish mayor had his phone hacked using Pegasus spyware, Gazeta Wyborcza daily reported on Friday, amid allegations that the country's special services have used the technology against government opponents.Reports in 2021 by the Associated Press that the software, developed b
WARSAW : An opposition-linked Polish mayor had his phone hacked using Pegasus spyware, Gazeta Wyborcza daily reported on Friday, amid allegations that the country's special services have used the technology against government opponents.
Gazeta Wyborcza, a liberal daily which is highly critical of ruling nationalists Law and Justice , reported that the phone of Jacek Karnowski, mayor of the Baltic seaside resort of Sopot, was hacked in 2018-2019, when he was working on the opposition's campaign for elections to the upper house of parliament, the Senate.
"We will not allow the PiS machine to further destroy democracy, lead Poland to the East and sovietise our country," Karnowski said in a statement sent to Reuters."The politicians who inspired and commissioned these activities belong in prison." Senior figures in the PiS government have previously confirmed that it bought the sophisticated spyware, but denied that it had been used against political opponents.
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