Saudi Prince accused of tapping the phone of world’s richest man Jeff Bezos

Washington, Agency. The world’s richest man and Amazon boss Jeff Bezos has claimed his phone was hacked after opening a message sent by Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The 56-year-old Bezos and Prince were exchanging messages on WhatsApp when they received a video message from the Prince, after which Bezos was believed to have been hacked.

This was revealed in the report of The Guardian. At the same time, the question also arose whether the world’s richest man, who also owns the Washington Post, his phone has been hacked by the Prince of Saudi Arabia for confidential material. Please tell that it was also claimed that a large amount of data was stolen from Bezos’ phone within an hour.

Jeff Bezos’ cell phone was hacked in 2018 after the Saudi Prince’s WhatsApp message. The Guardian reported on Tuesday that the Amazon billionaire had received a video file containing the code related to Mohammed bin Salman’s personal phone number.

According to a forensic investigation of the phone later, the message was sent on May 1, 2018. Within an hour a large amount of data was extracted from Bezos’ phone. There is no detail of what kind of data was taken.