The hacking took place between May and June 2021 using the spyware Pegasus, Bolaños said. Information about the hacking has been passed on to the judiciary, the Spanish newspaper El País writes. “It’s not about conjectures, but about serious facts,” said Bolaños.
The Pegasus software was developed by the Israeli firm NSO and is used by governments and intelligence agencies in several countries. The software has attracted a lot of attention in Spain in recent weeks after media reports that it was widely used by the government between 2017 and 2020 to spy on Catalan separatist leaders and activists.