Revealed: how abusive texts led to discovery of hacking of Al Jazeera

Threatening messages led to monitoring of phone that unearthed evidence of cyber-attack against Qatar-based network
A series of abusive text messages sent to an Al Jazeera investigative programme were the first crumbs that eventually led to the discovery of an unprecedented hacking operation against dozens of staff from the Qatar-based media network, according to one of the journalists who was targeted.Researchers at Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto claimed on Sunday that the UAE and Sau