It all started with a software glitch on Saudi womenβs-rights activist @LoujainHathloul's iPhone. The glitch allowed her and privacy researchers to discover a trove of evidence suggesting the Israeli spyware maker had helped hack her phone 2/5
The discovery amounted to a hacking blueprint and led Apple to notify thousands of other state-backed hacking victims around the world, according to four people with direct knowledge of the incident 4/5
Security researchers say the al-Hathloul discovery was the first to provide a blueprint of a powerful new form of cyberespionage, providing the most concrete evidence to date of the scope of the weapon. Read the story by @joel_schectman and @bing_chris reut.rs 5/5
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