Amnesty International said Thursday it has independently confirmed that powerful spyware from the Israeli surveillance software maker NSO Group was used to hack a Polish senator multiple times in 2019 when he was running the opposition's parliamentary election campaign.
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The Associated Press reported last month that Citizen Lab, an internet watchdog group at the University of Toronto, found that the senator, Krzysztof Brejza, and two other Polish government critics were hacked with NSO's Pegasus spyware.
The senator's mobile phone was hacked with Pegasus 33 times in 2019, mostly while Brejza ran the opposition's campaign to unseat the Law and Justice-led government, Citizen Lab determined last month.
Law and Justice leaders have denied knowledge of the hacks and at times mocked the reported findings while refusing to open an investigation.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has called the Citizen Lab-AP findings "fake news" and suggested a foreign intelligence service could have done the spying – an idea dismissed by critics who say no other government would have any interest in the three Polish targets.
