Some 200 Jordanians, including officials at the Royal Hashemite Court, had their phones hacked allegedly by Israeli spyware companies, Ammon News, an Amman-based news site, reports.
Several Jordanians tell the news site that their iPhones were accessed, saying they were notified of the hack, though not by who.
“Informed” American sources tell Ammon News that of some 8,000 phones around the world hacked by Israeli companies, 200 were Jordanian.
Officials at the Royal Hashemite Court, the Olympic committee, as well as a senator, an activist, and the wife of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi were targeted, the report says. (Khashoggi was allegedly targeted by NSO Groups’s Pegasus software in the lead up to his murder in 2018.)
There is no outside confirmation of the report.
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