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Saudi Arabia's Government Allegedly Hacked Into Jeff Bezos's Phone

posted by martyb on Monday April 01 2019, @02:56AM   Printer-friendly
from the pictures-or-it-didn't-happen...oh-wait. dept.

takyon writes:

Saudis gained access to Amazon CEO Bezos' phone: Bezos' security chief

The security chief for Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos said on Saturday that the Saudi government had access to Bezos' phone and gained private information from it.

Gavin De Becker, a longtime security consultant, said he had concluded his investigation into the publication in January of leaked text messages between Bezos and Lauren Sanchez, a former television anchor who the National Enquirer tabloid newspaper [had] said Bezos was dating.

Last month, Bezos accused the newspaper's owner of trying to blackmail him with the threat of publishing "intimate photos" he allegedly sent to Sanchez unless he said in public that the tabloid's reporting on him was not politically motivated.

Also at The Daily Beast.

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Monday April 01 2019, @06:37AM (2 children)

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Monday April 01 2019, @06:37AM (#822988) Journal

    Oct. 2: Jamal Khashoggi is last seen entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Soon, The Washington Post raises the alarm and demands answers from the Saudi government.
    Oct. 7: Turkey asserts that Khashoggi has been killed inside the Saudi consulate. The Post escalates its relentless coverage, demanding justice for Jamal.

    If it had been someone else that the WaPost hadn't been involved with, maybe it would have been completely swept under the rug or gone unnoticed for days or weeks. Instead, it became the top news story globally (IIRC).

    The nature of the Khashoggi murder makes it seem even more likely that Saudis would go after Bezos. Mr. Bone Saw is developing a reputation for ordering brazen actions for petty reasons. I can't imagine that hacking Bezos and leaking his affair in order to embarrass him would be worth much strategically in comparison to the backlash. I wonder if NEOM [soylentnews.org] and all those other big plans will see the light of day in Saudi Pariah.

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday April 01 2019, @07:27AM (1 child)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 01 2019, @07:27AM (#822990) Journal

    I can't imagine that hacking Bezos and leaking his affair in order to embarrass him would be worth much strategically in comparison to the backlash

    I feel that Mr Bone Saw suffers from an imagination deficit.
    Specifically, he cannot imagine he could fail or be discovered. That, I reckon, is a common syndrome in young males, particularly in sociopathic autocrats that had a sheltered upbringing.

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    • (Score: 2) by takyon on Monday April 01 2019, @07:43AM

      by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Monday April 01 2019, @07:43AM (#822995) Journal

      An eight-page contract AMI sent for me and Bezos to sign would have required that I make a public statement, composed by them and then widely disseminated, saying that my investigation had concluded they hadn’t relied upon “any form of electronic eavesdropping or hacking in their news-gathering process.”

      Note here that I’d never publicly said anything about electronic eavesdropping or hacking—and they wanted to be sure I couldn’t.

      They also wanted me to say our investigation had concluded that their Bezos story was not “instigated, dictated or influenced in any manner by external forces, political or otherwise.” External forces? Such a strange phrase.

      MBS also couldn't imagine that there would be idiocy at an American tabloid publication.

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