Facebook sues Israeli cyber surveillance firm over alleged WhatsApp hack.
WhatsApp is used by some 1.5 billion people monthly and has often touted a high level of security, including end-to-end encrypted messages that cannot be deciphered by WhatsApp or other third parties.
Lawyer Scott Watnik called WhatsApp’s move “entirely unprecedented,” explaining that major service providers tended to shy away from litigation for fear of “opening up the hood” and revealing too much about their digital security. He said other firms would be watching the progress of the suit with interest.
NSO’s phone hacking software has already been implicated in a series of human rights abuses across Latin America and the Middle East, including a sprawling espionage scandal in Panama and an attempt to spy on an employee of the London-based rights group Amnesty International.
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