LONDON: An India-based computer hacking gang targeted critics of the Qatar World Cup, an investigation by British journalists said on Nov 6, as the Qatari government furiously denied it had played any part in commissioning the eavesdropping.
A database leaked to Britain’s Sunday Times and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism revealed the hacking of a dozen lawyers, journalists and famous people from 2019 “commissioned by one particular client”, the newspaper and the bureau said in a statement.
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