Creators of Pegasus Spyware sue Facebook over blocked accounts
By MYBRANDBOOK
NSO Group’s eight employees have sued Facebook demanding that the social media giant must unblock their accounts on its platform as well as on Instagram.
The Israeli spyware company sells controversial Pegasus software to help governments snoop on people.
The complainants asked the Tel Aviv District Court to order Facebook to unblock the accounts until the issues are decided in court. They alleged that Facebook violated its agreement with them by blocking the accounts arbitrarily without notice, and without providing a reason.
Facebook in a statement claims that it had disabled "relevant accounts" after attributing a "sophisticated cyber-attack" to NSO Group and its employees.
Facebook sued NSO Group in October for creating the Pegasus software that allowed its clients to spy on communication of 1,400 WhatsApp users, including some in India that involved journalists, diplomats, and civil society members.
According to Union Information and Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, WhatsApp had informed the government that the spyware Pegasus was developed by the NSO Group which had used the spyware to attempt to reach the mobile phones of a possible 1,400 users globally that includes 121 users from India.
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