WASHINGTON: The investigator hired to seem into the discharge of intimate pictures of Jeff Bezos stated Sunday he has concluded that Saudi Arabian government hacked the Amazon chief's phone to get right of entry to his personal data.
Gavin de Becker connected the hack to intensive coverage by The Washington Post newspaper, which is owned by Bezos, of the homicide of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi on the kingdom's consulate in Istanbul final year.
"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 online.
He stated that while the brother of Bezos's mistress was paid by the National Enquirer scandal sheet for the discharge of the information, his function will have been a purple herring, and the plot went some distance beyond one guy in search of to cash in.
"It's clear that MBS considers The Washington Post to be a major enemy," de Becker wrote, relating to the oil-rich kingdom's powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, whom the USA Senate, after a closed-door briefing by the CIA, named as "responsible" for the homicide.
But de Becker did not specify which a part of the Saudi government he was blaming for the hack, and gave few details about the investigation that led him to the conclusion that the dominion was responsible.
The results, he wrote, "have been turned over to federal officials." Bezos hired Gavin de Becker & Associates to learn how his intimate textual content messages and pictures made their means into the hands of the Enquirer, which reported at the Amazon chief's extramarital affair, resulting in his divorce.
Bezos has accused Enquirer publisher American Media Inc, led by David Pecker, of "blackmail" for threatening to post the intimate pictures if he did not halt the investigation.
The Amazon chief declined to do so, instead publishing copies of emails from AMI. Saudi Arabia has stressed out that the crown prince was no longer involved within the killing of Khashoggi, a Post contributing columnist.
Riyadh first of all stated it had no wisdom of his destiny, however later blamed the homicide on rogue brokers.
Gavin de Becker connected the hack to intensive coverage by The Washington Post newspaper, which is owned by Bezos, of the homicide of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi on the kingdom's consulate in Istanbul final year.
"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 online.
He stated that while the brother of Bezos's mistress was paid by the National Enquirer scandal sheet for the discharge of the information, his function will have been a purple herring, and the plot went some distance beyond one guy in search of to cash in.
"It's clear that MBS considers The Washington Post to be a major enemy," de Becker wrote, relating to the oil-rich kingdom's powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, whom the USA Senate, after a closed-door briefing by the CIA, named as "responsible" for the homicide.
But de Becker did not specify which a part of the Saudi government he was blaming for the hack, and gave few details about the investigation that led him to the conclusion that the dominion was responsible.
The results, he wrote, "have been turned over to federal officials." Bezos hired Gavin de Becker & Associates to learn how his intimate textual content messages and pictures made their means into the hands of the Enquirer, which reported at the Amazon chief's extramarital affair, resulting in his divorce.
Bezos has accused Enquirer publisher American Media Inc, led by David Pecker, of "blackmail" for threatening to post the intimate pictures if he did not halt the investigation.
The Amazon chief declined to do so, instead publishing copies of emails from AMI. Saudi Arabia has stressed out that the crown prince was no longer involved within the killing of Khashoggi, a Post contributing columnist.
Riyadh first of all stated it had no wisdom of his destiny, however later blamed the homicide on rogue brokers.
Investigator says Amazon chief's phone hacked by Saudis
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