Cybersecurity
Saudi Prince Linked by UN Duo to Bezos Hack, Bid to Muzzle Post
- Amazon CEO, also owns the Post, which was critical of kingdom
- Saudi dissident was columnist at Post and critical of kingdom
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United Nations experts accused the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of possible involvement in hacking Jeff Bezos’s phone in an effort to “influence, if not silence” reporting on Saudi Arabia by the Bezos-owned Washington Post.
Bezos’s iPhone was infiltrated via an MP4 video file sent from the WhatsApp account used by the prince in 2018, according to a statement Wednesday by U.N. independent experts appointed by the Human Rights Council.