Israel suspects Iran of hacking election frontrunner Gantz's phone: TV

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Israel's Shin Bet security service suspects Iran of hacking the mobile phon...

FILE PHOTO: Benny Gantz, head of the Blue and White party, walks with fellow party candidates during a visit to a kibbutz in Israel outside the northern Gaza Strip, March 13, 2019. REUTERS/Amir Cohen/File Photo

Gantz, a former chief of Israel’s armed forces, was informed of the hack five weeks ago, Channel 12 said, adding that the Shin Bet believed Iranian state intelligence had accessed the ex-general’s personal information and correspondences.Gantz’s centrist Blue and White party, which has outpaced Netanyahu’s conservative Likud in pre-election polls, played down any prospect of a national security breach and suggested the story had been deliberately leaked.

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