Alerts to MPs: US Apple team expected to meet with CERT-In officials
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New Delhi: This month, US cyber security experts from Apple are scheduled to meet with CERT-In officials to discuss the show cause notice that was given to the business after multiple opposition MPs received a warning notification on their iPhones.
A few opposition figures stated last month that they got a notice from Apple alerting them to "state-sponsored attackers trying to remotely compromise" their iPhones and that the government was allegedly hacking them.
CERT-In, which comes under Meity, had issued a show-cause notice to Apple in this regard.
On Friday, Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology (Meity) Rajeev Chandrasekhar said that Apple has to reply to the notice which needs to be done by their global cyber security team.
"They have to come here and answer those questions. Basic issue is ongoing," the minister told reporters.
He said that the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team or CERT-In has met local representatives of Apple but the issue is beyond their capability to respond.
"It is their cyber security people who have to come and meet CERT-In and they will come all the way from US," the minister said.
When asked about the deadline given to Apple to submit its response, the minister said he is not certain about the dates but expects the team to meet Cert-In officials sometime this month.
A Meity official said that the Apple cyber security team will come this month only if they get a visa on time.
Meanwhile, the Members of Parliament (MPs) who received the warning notification on their iPhones include Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge, party leaders Shashi Tharoor, Pawan Khera, K C Venugopal, Supriya Shrinate, T S Singhdeo and Bhupinder S Hooda; Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra, CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury and SP chief Akhilesh Yadav.
Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi, Aam Aadmi Party's Raghav Chadha, AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi and some aides of Congress MP Rahul Gandhi also received the notification.
With PTI inputs