Security News > 2020 > January > UN report alleges that Saudi crown prince hacked Jeff Bezos’s phone
A forensic examination of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos's mobile phone has pointed to it having allegedly been infected by personal-message-exfiltrating malware - likely NSO Group's notorious Pegasus mobile spyware - that came from Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's personal WhatsApp account.
The UN's report said that full details from the digital forensic exam of Bezos's phone were made available to its special rapporteurs.
The richest man in the world had been having a seemingly friendly WhatsApp conversation with bin Salman when, on 1 May 2018, an unsolicited file was sent from the crown prince's phone.
The tabloid's story set off what The Guardian's sources described as a "Race" by the Amazon CEO's security team to figure out how his phone got hacked.
Recent media reports that suggest the Kingdom is behind a hacking of Mr. Jeff Bezos' phone are absurd.