Saudis ‘had access’ to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ phone, his security chief claims
- Claim came after publication of leaked text messages between Bezos and a former television anchor who the National Enquirer said he was dating
The investigator hired to look into the release of intimate images of Jeff Bezos said on Saturday he had concluded that Saudi Arabian authorities hacked the Amazon chief’s phone to access his personal data.
“Our investigators and several experts concluded with high confidence that the Saudis had access to Bezos’ phone, and gained private information,” de Becker wrote on The Daily Beast website.
He said while the brother of Bezos’s lover was paid by the National Enquirer scandal sheet for the release of the information, his role may have been a red herring, and the plot went far beyond one man trying to cash in.
“It’s clear that MBS considers The Washington Post to be a major enemy,” de Becker wrote, referring to the oil-rich kingdom’s powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, whom the US Senate, after a closed-door briefing by the CIA, named as “responsible” for the murder.
But de Becker did not specify which part of the Saudi government he was blaming for the hack, and gave few details about the investigation that led him to the conclusion the kingdom was responsible.