FT editor among 180 journalists identified by clients of spyware firm

Data leak and forensics suggest NSO’s surveillance tool used against journalists at some of world’s top media companies

The editor of the Financial Times is one of more than 180 editors, investigative reporters and other journalists around the world who were selected as possible candidates for surveillance by government clients of the surveillance firm NSO Group, the Guardian can reveal.

Roula Khalaf, who became the first female editor in the newspaper’s history last year, was selected as a potential target throughout 2018.

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