Security News > 2020 > January > Investigators: Saudis Hacked Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' Phone

The mobile phone of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos was hacked using a malicious file sent directly from the official WhatsApp account of Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, investigators have reportedly found.

Hackers stole sensitive information from Bezos' phone "Within hours" of the hack, according to a digital forensic analysis of Bezos' phone conducted by FTI Consulting, a Washington-based business advisory group.

Recent media reports that suggest the Kingdom is behind a hacking of Mr. Jeff Bezos' phone are absurd.

"The forensic analysis found that within hours of receipt of the MP4 video file from the crown prince's account, massive and unprecedented exfiltration of data from the phone began, increasing data egress suddenly by 29,156 percent to 126 MB. Data spiking then continued undetected over some months and at rates as much as 106,032,045 percent higher than the pre-video data egress baseline for Mr. Bezos' phone of 430KB.".

Gavin de Becker, a security expert hired by Amazon to investigate the message leak, told the Daily Beast that the Saudi government may have had access to Bezos' phone before the Enquirer published the report.

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