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NSO Group must pay more than $167 million in damages to WhatsApp for spyware campaign
The five-year legal battle between the Meta-owned company and the most notorious spyware maker in the world ends with a huge win for WhatsApp.
BOOK NOW Will Cathcart, the head of WhatsApp, explained the lawsuit’s reasoning in a Washington Post op-ed at the time, where he said that “this should serve as a wake-up call for technology companies, governments and all Internet users. Judge Phyllis Hamilton, who presided over the case, ruled that NSO Group was liable for breaching federal and California hacking laws in its 2019 spyware campaign against the 1,400 WhatsApp users. Cathcart celebrated the December ruling saying in an X post that it was “a huge win for privacy,” and that “surveillance companies should be on notice that illegal spying will not be tolerated.”
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