U.N. links Bezos phone hack to Saudi crown prince’s WhatsApp account.

U.S. President Donald Trump and
Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
greet one another at a G20 summit in 2018 in Buenos Aires.

United Nations human-rights experts call for an immediate investigation by the U.S. government of claims put forward in an independent report commissioned by the Amazon founder and Washington Post owner

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The cellphone of Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos was hacked in what appeared to be an attempt by Saudi Arabia’s crown prince to “influence, if not silence” the newspaper’s reporting on the kingdom, two U.N. human-rights experts said Wednesday.

The U.N. experts called for an “immediate investigation” by the United States into a report commissioned by Bezos that showed the billionaire technology mogul’s phone was likely hacked after he received an MP4 video file sent from Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s WhatsApp account after the two men exchanged phone numbers during a dinner in Los Angeles in 2018.



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