'India will probe Apple threat notices'

India will investigate the notifications sent by iPhone maker Apple Inc. to several users, including members of Parliament (MPs) from the Opposition parties, claiming state-sponsored attackers were attempting to compromise their Apple devices.

- Gulveen Aulakh

The government on Tuesday asked Apple to participate in its investigation and provide accurate information on the alleged state-sponsored attacks, telecom and IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Tuesday, following disclosures on the microblogging site X, formerly known as Twitter, by several MPs, including Congress national president Mallikarjun Kharge and party’s general secretary organization K.C. Venugopal, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, Trimalool Congress MP Mahua Moitra, Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi and Aam Aadmi Party’s Raghav Chadha, some lawyers and journalists.

“The government is very concerned and will get to the bottom of the issue. An investigation has been ordered into this matter already," the minister told reporters in Bhopal earlier in the day. “We request everyone who has received the advisory to cooperate with the investigation and make sure that we go to the depth of the matter," he said, adding that the investigation would involve deep technical domain expertise, which will be provided by Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), that it will also take help of law enforcement agencies as and when required.