Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos had his mobile phone hacked after he received a WhatsApp message, apparently from the account of Saudi Arabia’s crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, according to The Guardian. The Guardian reports that Bezos, who owns the Washington Post, received an infected video file and that “large amounts of data were exfiltrated from Bezos’s phone within hours.” The publication was...
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