It sounds like a weak detective story. The Saudi prince infected the phone of the head of Amazon
Jeff Bezos found himself in a situation reminiscent of a poor sensational book scenario, in which there must be everything - murder, blackmail, politics, the richest people in the world and exotic princes. Life is sometimes prone to graphomania.
Jeff Bezos probably walked with an infected phone for months. At that time, tens of gigabytes of data could leak out. Behind hacking into the smartphone of one of the richest people in the world is to stand none other than the Saudi heir to the throne.
Jeff Bezos got an infected file from the Saudi Crown Prince .
In 2018, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salaman toured the United States. He was at MIT, at Harvard and the White House, he met with significant figures from the world of media, business and politics. However, it seems that his American adventure was not just a regular PR tour. According to information disclosed by Guardian, it was then that the Jeff Bezos phone would be infected. On May 1, 2018, during a friendly chat through WhatsApp, the billionaire received a message from Mohammed bin Salman's personal account. The file was to be infected. The gentlemen saw each other at dinner before.
Jeff Bezos, apart from being CEO of Amazon and the richest man in the world, is also the owner of the influential Washington Post. Data from his phone is potentially invaluable.
Journalist assassination, romance and blackmail in the background. Scheherazade wouldn't think of it better.
Some experts say that the break-in to Bezos's phone may have been dictated by an attempt to stop Saudi Arabia's critical government prime minister, particularly Prince Mohammed bin Salaman, regularly published articles in the Washington Post. Their author was Jamal Khashukji, a journalist who cooperated with the newspaper, who was murdered in 2018 at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. After investigations, the American services said that the murder was probably ordered by a prince or someone close to him.
Saudi Arabia, of course, denies this.
Suspicions about the possible insecurity of Jeff Bezos' phone did not appear until a few months later. In January last year, information about the affair of Amazon CEO with a former journalist was revealed by the National Enquirer tabloid. The journal had access to SMSs sent to each other by the couple, and although he officially claimed that he had obtained them from the woman's brother, the matter raised doubts in the surroundings of Bezos.
The smartphone of the Amazon boss was taken under the microscope. Gavin de Becker, dealing with ensuring the safety of Bezos, already in March last year revealed that he suspected Saudi Arabia of hacking on the smartphone of his boss. The accusation sounded more likely that the National Inquirer began to talk about possible involvement in the Saudi Arabia relatively quickly. The accusation was all the more likely that the head of the National Inquirer had close relations with Prince Mohammed bin Salaman.
Saudi Arabia, of course, denies everything.
https://twitter.com/SaudiEmbassyUSA/status/1219792870389035008
As the Business insider calculates , during his visit to the USA the prince also met with Lary Page, Tim Cook, Sundar Pichai, Bill Gates and Richard Branson among others.
It sounds like a weak detective story. The Saudi prince infected the phone of the head of Amazon
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