15 Members of El Faro Sue NSO in US Federal Court for Pegasus Hacks

01/12/2022 10 min

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On behalf of 15 members of El Faro, lawyers from the Knight First Amendment Institute sued the Israeli surveillance company NSO for allegedly selling a program that hacked the phones of 22 members of El Faro between June 2020 and November 2021. The lawsuit asks the court to order NSO Group to disclose the name of its client in El Salvador. This is the first time that journalists targeted by NSO spyware, including a U.S. national, file suit in the U.S.

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