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The espionage of the cell phone of Fernando Grande-Marlaska - the third member of the Government attacked by the Israeli program - through
Pegasus
took place between June 7 and 26 of last year, as this newspaper has been able to confirm from government sources.
In addition, according to the results of the checks carried out by the
National Cryptologic Center
(CCN), the amount of information extracted was 6.3 gigabytes and 400 megabytes in two attempts.
Pegasus wanted to do the same with the telephone number of the Minister of Agriculture, Luis Planas, but was unsuccessful.
The content of the information that was stolen or the degree of sensitivity has not been revealed.
At the moment, the authorship of the attack is unknown, which is added to that of the terminals of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the Defense Minister, Margarita Robles.
The country's top security official delivered two mobile phones to the National Intelligence Center (CNI) last week for study.
It was the CCT, dependent on the CNI, the body that has analyzed them and has found traces in one of the terminals of having been attacked by the Israeli espionage program.
The infection of his terminal does not coincide with the greatest diplomatic crisis between
Spain
and
Morocco
due to the arrival and reception in
Logroño
of the leader of
the Polisario Front
,
Brahim Ghali
, who remained in the country from April 18 to June 1, 2021.
The information stolen from the Minister of the Interior -in two attempts- is three times greater than that obtained from Pedro Sánchez's terminal.
The attack suffered by Marlaska coincides in time with that of Margarita Robles' mobile.
In addition, there was also an attempt to hack the mobile of the Minister of Agriculture and former ambassador to Morocco, Luis Planas, as revealed by the Government spokesperson,
Isabel Rodríguez
.
The infection could not be executed, according to Executive sources.
The Government is going to put these new revelations of the National Cryptologic Center in the hands of the courts, with which it will expand the complaint presented in the National High Court that
At first, it referred only to the telephone numbers of Sánchez and Robles.
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