Jeff Bezos, the current president of Amazon, had his phone hacked by a message sent on WhatsApp from the personal account of the prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman. Everything happened in 2018, when the WhatsApp application was still vulnerable to an attack by which a simple video clip sent to a victim's phone activated a vulnerability that offered access to the information in the device, and the head of Amazon was one of these victims.
The head of Amazon and the prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, would have been in a rather close relationship of friendship in May 2020 when the malicious message was sent from the latter's phone. Patron of the Washington Post at that time, Mohammed bin Salman is now seen as the source of this attack, and this raises many question marks regarding the relationship he has with many businessmen from around the world.
Amazon Boss Had His Phone SHATTERED by a WhatsApp Message
The head of Amazon had very large amounts of data extracted from the phone in the hours following the attack, a forensic investigation on the device confirming the fact that it was broken by hackers. Considering how much confidential and important information was in Jeff Bezos' phone, both about Amazon and about other companies, it is possible that the data obtained by the hackers affected, or still affects, his businesses around the world.
It is still very strange that the phone of the head of Amazon was attacked from the personal account of the prince of Saudi Arabia, but it was probably considered then that the attack could not be traced to the source. It seems that the reality is still different when you attack the head of one of the largest companies in the world, Amazon having IT divisions that also have experts in discovering exploits for various operating systems, so the decision was, more than likely, one not very happy, in the end.
The head of Amazon has not yet declared anything official on this subject, but the fact that his phone was hacked raises a lot of question marks regarding the security that even the leaders of large IT companies have.
