Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman hacked Amazon CEO's phone, extracted information: Report

According to various media reports, the Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos's phone was hacked by the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman and had gained private information from it.

As per the report published in the Guardian newspaper, Bezo's phone was hacked by the Saudi government on May 1, 2018, when Saudi Arabia crown prince Mohammad Bin Salman sent a malicious WhatsApp video file to infiltrate Bezos' phone

The report further says that after the video was sent post which “large amounts of data were exfiltrated from Bezos’s phone within hours”.

In Feb 2019, Bezos accused the newspaper's owner of trying to blackmail him with the threat of publishing "intimate photos" he allegedly sent to Lauren Sanchez and experts believe that leaked text & photos could be related to this hacking. 

In March 2019,  Bezos' security chief had claimed that the Saudi government had access to Amazon CEO's phone and his private information has been compromised.

The Saudi Embassy, meanwhile, took to Twitter on Wednesday and said, "Recent media reports that suggest the Kingdom is behind the hacking of Mr. Jeff Bezos' phone are absurd. We call for an investigation on these claims so that we can have all the facts out."