Germany says lawmakers’ iPhones may have been hacked with spyware

By Zack Whittaker · TechCrunch · Monday, 2 November 2026 at 19:45 (yesterday) · Original article ↗

German lawmakers and a filmmaker are among the people who received notifications from Apple warning that their phones may have been hacked.

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