Amazon boss Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince'

[herding cats]

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 world’s 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 Bezos’s 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]

1. So THAT'S how Trump keeps abreast of Jeff Bezos.

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2. jeff.. the saudis are "all in" with trump

you can't be freindly with them

[herding cats]

3. What I'm wondering is if MBS has ever sent Trump or Kushner an infected video?

This was apparently not obvious at the time it occurred. MBS could have all the goods on any of them right this minute.

[ToxMarz]

6. That's how they WERE tracking him in 2018

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.

[SunSeeker]

4. K & R for exposure.

[yaesu]

5. On orders of tRump no doubt. nt

[Harker]

7. Headline: Bozo buzzes Bezos. n/t