Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and owner of The Washington Post, was hacked via a video message sent by Mohammed bin Salman, crown prince of Saudi Arabia, through one of his WhatsApp accounts.
Since 2018, when Jamal Khashoggi, journalist of The Washington Post, was murdered, the relations between Saudi Arabia and Amazon have only worsened.
Bezos' phone contained private information about relationships he had had with a TV presenter and an actress, which, posiblemente, led to the Amazon CEO's divorce from his wife, Mackenzie Tuttle, after 25 years of marriage.
Bezos' team of investigators, determined that his phone had been compromised in mid- 2018, when bin Salman, le envió un vídeo que contenía malware espía y a lo largo de 2019 fue extrayendo información del dispositivo.
Un relator especial sobre ejecuciones extrajudiciales y otro sobre la libertad de expresión emitirán un comunicado dando el veredicto de que el análisis del equipo de Jeff Bezos es creíble.
Esto ha forzado a la ONU ha realizar investigaciones más exhaustivas tanto en Estados Unidos como en Arabia Saudí.