Pegasus surveillance: PSG boss al-Khelaifi’s numbers ‘targeted’

Two mobile numbers of Nasser al-Khelaifi appeared on the leaked list of 50,000 numbers of potential Pegasus spyware targets, Le Monde reports.

Phone numbers belonging to Nasser al-Khelaifi, the Qatari president of football club Paris Saint Germain and beIN Sports chief executive, were on the list of numbers that were potentially targeted with Pegasus spyware, French daily Le Monde has reported. Pegasus, software made by Israeli company NSO, has been implicated in mass surveillance of journalists, human rights defenders, and at least 14 heads of state, in addition to several of their family members. Their phone numbers were among about 50,000 potential surveillance targets on a list leaked to rights group Amnesty International and Paris-based Forbidden Stories, which was shared with a consortium of news outlets.