Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, suffered a hack to his phone, according to a report.
James Martin / CNET
Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO and newspaper owner The Washington PostHe suffered a hacking of his phone in 2018 after he received a message from the personal account of the Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman. A forensic analysis found that the hacking was triggered by an infected video file that was sent to Bezos from a bin Salmán account, according to a report published on Tuesday, January 21 by the newspaper. The guardian, which cited anonymous sources.
According to the report, large amounts of Bezos phone data were stolen, although it is not specified which data was violated.
The Saudi Arabian Embassy did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In March 2019, Gavin de Becker, a researcher hired by Bezos after intimate and private messages Between the executive and his current girlfriend, Lauren Sánchez, they were leaked to a tabloid, said Saudi Arabia had been behind Bezos’ phone hacking. The investigator had suggested at the time that the hacking was linked to the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist who wrote for The Washington Post.
De Becker has not responded to a request for comment.
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