Israeli intelligence services allegedly hacked into French Prime Minister Manuel Valls’s cellphone during a diplomatic visit to Jerusalem in May, a French news magazine reported Thursday. Valls visited Israel on May 21-24 for talks with President Reuven Rivlin and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a bid to revive the reconciliation process between Israelis and Palestinians. It does not spy on her," the Prime Minister’s Office statement read, according to the Hebrew-language daily Ynet. Back in Paris, the devices were handed over to France’s National Agency for Cybersecurity to investigate the claims. Afterward, several members of the diplomatic delegation noticed their devices — several phones and a laptop — were not working correctly and showed signs of “tampering,” according to the report.

Source: The Star July 08, 2016 08:37 UTC