Saudi crown prince hacked Jeff Bezos phone

Published January 21, 2020 10:16pm ET



Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos was hacked during a message exchange with Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, according to sources.

Sources told the Guardian on Tuesday that Bezos’s phone was likely compromised when Salman sent him a video file that was infected. A person familiar with the matter said that large amounts of information were taken from the CEO’s phone in just a few hours.

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