An investigator investigating Amazon's CEO Jeff Bezos leaking the intimate photographs said that Saudi Arab officials hacked his phone to get personal information of Bezos. Investigator Gavin de Baker said this in the conclusion of his investigation on Sunday.
The investigator hired to look into the release of intimate images of Jeff Bezos said Saturday he has 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 that while the brother of Bezos's mistress 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 seeking 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 that the kingdom was responsible.
The results, he wrote, "have been turned over to federal officials."
Bezos has accused Enquirer publisher American Media Inc, led by David Pecker, of "blackmail" for threatening to publish the intimate photos if he did not halt the investigation.
The Amazon chief declined to do so, instead of publishing copies of emails from AMI.
Saudi Arabia has stressed that the crown prince was not involved in the killing of Khashoggi, a Post contributing columnist.
Riyadh initially said it had no knowledge of his fate, but later blamed the murder on rogue agents
Becker found this hack linked to the coverage made by the newspaper 'The Washington Post' on the killing of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashogi. Bezos owns the title of this newspaper. Khashogi was killed in Istanbul's Turkish Consulate in Istanbul last year.
Becker wrote in The Daily Beast website, our investigators and many experts have concluded with great confidence that Saudi Arabia hacked Bezos's phone and obtained his personal information.
