New Delhi: The Congress claimed Sunday that senior party leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra had received a message from WhatsApp informing her that she was one of the victims of the recently discovered hack.
“I want to tell that Priyanka Gandhi also received a similar message from WhatsApp around the same time,” Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said Sunday, responding to a question about former union minister Praful Patel and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s claims about receiving messages from the Facebook-owned messaging platform.
The Congress is contemplating further action but the immediate concern is to change Priyanka’s number.
Sources in the party told ThePrint that Priyanka “didn’t make much of the message” when she first received it two months ago. “She didn’t make much of it at the time,” an aide told ThePrint. “However, when Surjewala checked with her again a week ago about the message, she realised she had received it too.”
Several Indians, including activists and journalists, were reportedly affected by the WhatsApp hack, which made headlines this week. Around the world, as many as 1,400 people found their devices compromised by an Israeli-made spyware launched via the social media app earlier this year.
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With inputs from PTI