This particular analysis is found “most probable” that the intrusion into the phone was triggered by a malware video sent from Salman’s account to Bezos
New Delhi: The Amazon founder and President Jeff Bezos in 2018 had his mobile phone “hacked” after receiving a WhatsApp message that had seemingly been sent from the private account of the prince of Saudi Arabia confirms the sources from the Guardian.
The inscribed message from the number used by Mohammed bin Salman is believed to have included a spiteful file that invaded the mobile phone of the world’s wealthiest man, according to the digital forensic analysis.
This particular analysis is found “most probable” that the intrusion into the phone was triggered by a malware video sent from Salman’s account to Bezos.
According to the sources from the Guardian, the two men had been having an apparently friendly WhatsApp exchange when, on 1 May of that year, the unsolicited file was sent.
Huge amounts of data detached from Bezos’s mobile within hours, according to a person who knows with the matter. But the Guardian has no knowledge of what was taken from the phone or how it was used.
The future king of Saudi Arabia the extraordinary revelation that may have had personal indulge in the targeting of the founder of Amazon will send shockwaves from Wall Street to Silicon Valley.
It could also undermine efforts by “MBS” – as the future King is known – to attract more western investors to Saudi Arabia, where the prince has promised to transform the kingdom economically even as he has overseen a clampdown on his critics and rivals.
The announcement is likely to raise tough questions for the kingdom about the situation around how US tabloid the National Enquirer came to publish intimate details about Jeff Bezos’s personal life in addition to text messages – nine months after.
This situation may also lead to renewed scrutiny about what the crown prince Salman and his inner group were doing in the months earlier to the murder of Jamal Khashoggi the Washington Post journalist who was killed in October 2018 and five months after the alleged “hack” of the newspaper’s holder.
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