UAE linked to listing of hundreds of UK phones in Pegasus project leak
by Dan Sabbagh, David Pegg, Paul Lewis and Stephanie from on (#5MEPP)
Member of the House of Lords and Briton once detained in UAE among those appearing in database
A member of the House of Lords is among more than 400 people whose UK mobile phone numbers appear in a leaked list of numbers identified by NSO Group's client governments between 2017 and 2019, the Guardian can reveal.
The principal government responsible for selecting the UK numbers appears to be the United Arab Emirates, according to analysis of the data. The UAE is one of 40 countries that had access to the NSO spyware that is able to hack into and secretly take control of a mobile phone.
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