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Govt will brazen out snooping allegations until name of NSO Group's Indian client is revealed: Chidambaram

Last week, an international media consortium reported that over 300 verified mobile phone numbers, including those of two ministers, over 40 journalists, three opposition leaders besides scores of businesspersons and activists in India, could have been targeted for hacking through the Pegasus spyware of the NSO Group

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P Chidambaram. File pic

P Chidambaram. File pic

The government would brazen out the allegations of snooping until it is known who the "Indian client" of Israeli firm NSO Group''s Pegasus spyware was and that name would be revealed soon, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram said on Tuesday.

The former home minister said that based on investigations by an international group of journalists, news portal ''The Wire'' has reported that there was "an Indian client of the NSO Group".

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