The iPhone X phone belonging to the Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos, was hacked by the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, according to those from the UN, who would have seen a computer expertise done on the respective device.
The investigation came to the conclusion that the iPhone X phone was hacked through a message that was sent on WhatsApp and contained a video clip in MP4 format, but some experts who saw the conclusions of the expertise do not quite agree with that.
Those who did the IT expertise failed to decrypt the video clip that allegedly contained the exploit used to break the phone, and this raised a lot of question marks for many of the experts.
Normally, the key to decrypt the clip should have been stored in the phone and the video clip decrypted, but without that, experts say that most of the evidence presented is circumstantial, and there is nothing that directly incriminates the Saudi prince.
“This FTI forensic report is not very strong. Lots of weird circumstantial evidence to be sure, but no smoking gun. The funny thing is, it looks like FTI may have [the device] sitting right there, they just haven't figured out how to test it. Sufficient information to decrypt the file should be present in the forensic extraction performed by FTI. This is encrypted using keys that should also be stored on the device, which raises the question of why they didn't decrypt it and examine what's inside. This should be decryptable using local keys if they are around.”
Opinions are, of course, divided between experts, some supporting the expertise that was done, while others have a completely different opinion, so in the end it remains to be seen if we will ever find a 100% clear conclusion about the problem.
