According to The Guardian, a digital forensic analysis revealed that the encrypted message from the number used by Mohammed bin Salman included a malicious file that infiltrated his phone.
Amazon
founder and billionaire Jeff Bezos’s mobile phone was hacked after
receiving a message from the Saudi Arabian crown prince, The Guardian
newspaper reported.
According
to the British daily, a digital forensic analysis revealed that the
encrypted message from the number used by Mohammed bin Salman
included a malicious file that infiltrated his phone.
The
analysis also found that the intrusion could have been triggered by
an infected video file sent from the account of of the Saudi prince.
"The
two men had been having a seemingly friendly WhatsApp exchange when,
on May 1 of that year, the unsolicited file was sent," Guardian
said quoting anonymous sources.
While
the details of the data taken from the is unclear, the revelation of
the security breach comes almost a year after Jeff
Bezos and his wife, MacKenzie announced that they would be
separating after 25 years of marriage. After the divorce was
finalised, Bezos, in a blog post, accused National Enquirer - a US
tabloid - of threatening to publish embarrassing text messages and
photos unless he publicly affirmed that there was no political
motivation or outside force behind the tabloid’s coverage.
The
National Enquirer had earlier disclosed an extramarital affair
between Bezos and Lauren Sanchez, a former television anchor, in a
series of reports that relied, in part, on intimate text messages
sent by Bezos.
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