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Russia says thousands of iPhones were hacked, blames U.S. and Apple

Apple denied the charge and Russia cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab said it did not have enough data to blame any government

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Updated June 1, 2023 at 10:02 p.m. EDT|Published June 1, 2023 at 7:13 p.m. EDT
The Russian security service said a recently discovered espionage campaign shows that Apple had collaborated with U.S. government hackers, a claim that the tech company has denied. (Carolyn Fong for The Washington Post)
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Russia’s Federal Security Service said Monday that several thousand iPhones in the country had been hacked in a recently discovered espionage campaign that it attributed to the U.S. government, without providing evidence.

Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab said the campaign had implanted file-stealing malware on iPhones of its employees who were running a year-old version of Apple’s mobile operating system, adding that it did not have enough evidence to blame any government or group for the breaches.