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Congress says WhatsApp alerted Priyanka Gandhi over suspected phone hack

The party, however, did not say exactly when Gandhi received the message

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra
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File Photo: Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra | PTI

Press Trust of India New Delhi
The Congress on Sunday claimed that senior party leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra had received a message from WhatsApp informing her that her phone was suspected to have been hacked.

The party, however, did not say exactly when the Congress general secretary received the message.

This comes after WhatsApp revealed last week that Indian journalists and human rights activists were among roughly 1,400 users globally spied upon by unnamed entities using an Israeli spyware, Pegasus.

The messaging platform had said it sent special messages to all the affected users stating that it had "reason to believe they were impacted by this attack to directly