MoS Rajeev Chandrashekhar rebuts Washington Post, says report on Apple hack warnings has 'half facts, fully embellished'

Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Thursday rejected a report by The Washington Post claiming that Indian officials told technology company Apple to help soften the political impact of the security alerts the firm had issued in October about “state-sponsored” cyber attacks against Opposition MPs and journalists.

The minister of state for electronics and technology described the article as “half facts, fully embellished”.

On October 31, Apple had warned several Indian Opposition leaders and journalists that it believed that their iPhones may have been targeted by “state-sponsored attackers”.