- British newspaper The Guardian revealed on Tuesday that key data was stolen from Bezos’ mobile on 1 May 2018.
- It is alleged that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman sent the virus message to Bezos via WhatsApp.
- Through this, Prince Salman extracted the data of Bezos, journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed 5 months after the incident.
The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHCR) has demanded an investigation into Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the phone hack case of Amazon owner Jeff Bezos. UN experts say that Bezos’ phone hack is a serious issue. Therefore, the entire matter should be investigated immediately. Apart from this, there has been a demand to hold a probe on Prince Salman to continuously target the opposition.
What is the case of Bezos’ phone being hacked?
The British newspaper ‘The Guardian’ quoted sources a day earlier claiming Prince Salman had hacked Bezos’ phone. On this, UN experts have put the entire timeline through analysis.
According to the forensic analysis of Bezos’s iPhone in 2019, on May 1, 2018, Bezos’ phone was hacked by a viral MP-4 file. This file was sent to Bezos from Prince Salman’s WhatsApp account.
Crown Prince and Bezos exchanged numbers just a month before hacking. A large amount of data was extracted from Bezos’s phone shortly after Prince Salman’s file was downloaded to the phone.
Experts have revealed the new after data analysis. Accordingly, Crown Prince sent a message to WhatsApp after seeing Bezos’ personal data. In it, he revealed the personal and confidential information of Bezos.
After this, some personal information of Bezos was sent to the American tabloid ‘National Inquirer’. The newspaper leaked private messages from Bezos and his girlfriend Lawrence Sanchez. Bezos accused the newspaper of blackmailing him.
A month before this, Jeff and his wife Mackenzie Bezos announced they were breaking up their 25-year relationship. They had told that they have been living apart for a long time and will get divorced soon.
Experts accuse Prince Salman
Miss Calamard and Mr. Kaye, officers of the United Nations Human Rights Council, said, “From the information we have, it seems that the Crown Prince himself was involved in the spying of Bezos. Prince Salman wanted to at least keep the Washington Post’s reporting on Saudi Arabia silent or not. ”
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