The Saudi Crown Prince is said to send malicious messages to Jeff Bezos, the Amazon boss, causing his phone to be hacked in 2018.

Unnamed sources familiar with the matter said yesterday that billionaire Jeff Bezos, the Amazon owner and owner of the Washington Post, once had a friendly conversation with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman via WhatsApp on 5/1/2018.

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Amazon boss Jeff Bezos at an event in Washington, USA in May 2019 Photo: Reuters

According to the results of digital analysis, an encrypted message sent from Mohammed's phone number that allegedly contained a virus file, "highly likely," has infiltrated the rich man's phone. gender.

The source said the vast amount of data was stolen from Bezos' phone within hours, but did not disclose what the information was and how it was used.

The National Enquirer newspaper, of the AMI media company, earlier this year reported that Bezos' marriage to his wife MacKenzie broke down because of an affair with former MC Lauren Sanchez, and published a series of sensitive messages.

Gavin de Becker, an investigator hired by Bezos to find out that his private information was leaked, in March 2019 also accused Saudi Arabia of perpetrating the billionaire's phone. According to De Becker, the Saudi government has been considering the murder of Bezos since October 2018, when the Washington Post, the newspaper he owned, repeatedly reported on the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

US officials suspected the decision to kill Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, could be approved by Crown Prince Mohammed, but Riyadh rejected it. Saudi Foreign Minister has also confirmed that the country is not related to the National Enquirer reporting on the affair of Bezos.