Amazon boss Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince'
Source: The Guardian
The Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos had his mobile phone hacked in 2018 after receiving a WhatsApp message that had apparently been sent from the personal account of the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, sources have told the Guardian.
The encrypted message from the number used by Mohammed bin Salman is believed to have included a malicious file that infiltrated the phone of the worlds richest man, according to the results of a digital forensic analysis.
This analysis found it highly probable that the intrusion into the phone was triggered by an infected video file sent from the account of the Saudi heir to Bezos, the owner of the Washington Post.
The two men had been having a seemingly friendly WhatsApp exchange when, on 1 May of that year, the unsolicited file was sent, according to sources who spoke to the Guardian on the condition of anonymity.
Large amounts of data were exfiltrated from Bezoss phone within hours, according to a person familiar with the matter. The Guardian has no knowledge of what was taken from the phone or how it was used.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jan/21/amazon-boss-jeff-bezoss-phone-hacked-by-saudi-crown-prince
no_hypocrisy
(46,242 posts)lapfog_1
(29,228 posts)you can't be freindly with them
herding cats
(19,569 posts)This was apparently not obvious at the time it occurred. MBS could have all the goods on any of them right this minute.
ToxMarz
(2,169 posts)Then his affair was exposed by the National Enquirer and his wife divorced him. So he kind of figured it out back then (that he was hacked, not necessarily who exactly did what) and ended it.