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Report: Russian Authorities Hacked Political Prisoner’s iPhone Using Israeli Tech
How 3 Israeli newsrooms covered this story — translated into English and compared side by side.
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What happened
Citizen Lab says Russian authorities used Cellebrite technology to hack the phone of Andrey Pivovarov, a Russian political prisoner, after his May 2021 arrest. The breach exposed personal data and helped support a criminal case against him, despite Cellebrite’s earlier move to cut ties with Russia.
- 01Citizen Lab says Russia used Cellebrite tools to hack Andrey Pivovarov’s phone.
- 02Pivovarov was arrested in May 2021 and was in prison during the breach.
- 03The phone yielded messages, calls, photos, documents, contacts and other personal data.
- 04Russian authorities used the extracted information to prepare a criminal indictment.
- 05The report questions whether Russia still uses Israeli software against regime critics.
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