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Al Jazeera journalist files lawsuit accusing Saudi, UAE crown princes of hack-and-leak

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An Al Jazeera anchor is alleging the crown princes of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates helped to coordinate a hack-and-leak operation intended to intimidate and disparage her. In a civil suit filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, journalist Ghada Oueiss accuses Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) and UAE Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed (MBZ) of coordinating efforts to break into her iPhone and then share private photos on Twitter and various websites. The lawsuit says the operation is connected to larger efforts by rulers in Saudi Arabia and the UAE to stifle reports about the two regimes’ alleged human rights abuses. Oueiss has been critical of both nations’ leaders as part of her work as a principal anchor and presenter for Al Jazeera, a news agency based in the nearby Persian Gulf state of Qatar, which has strained ties […]

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UN report alleges that Saudi crown prince hacked Jeff Bezos’s phone

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Digital forensic evidence points to the phone’s massive, months-long data egress having likely been triggered by Pegasus mobile spyware. Continue reading UN report alleges that Saudi crown prince hacked Jeff Bezos’s phone→

Hack of Jeff Bezos’ phone likely happened through Saudi crown prince, analysts tell U.N.

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With “medium to high confidence,” forensic investigators have concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was directly involved in hacking into Jeff Bezos’ phone in 2018, according to a U.N. report released Wednesday. The hack, which allowed “intrusive surveillance” of Bezos according to the U.N., came after bin Salman and the Amazon founder met at a dinner in April 2018 while the crown prince was touring the U.S. The Guardian first reported the alleged surveillance of Bezos on Tuesday. Following an exchange of WhatsApp messages, bin Salman sent a malicious and encrypted file to Bezos, which led to the exfiltration of large amounts of data, according to the report. The interaction took place months before the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey, which American intelligence has assessed to have been carried out under orders from bin Salman. Bezos also owns the Washington Post. Soon after meeting bin Salman — also known as MBS […]

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Jeff Bezos, WhatsApp, and Mohammed bin Salman – what you need to know

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An investigation has concluded that Jeff Bezos’s smartphone was hacked after receiving a WhatsApp message from Mohammed bin Salman.
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