Jeff Bezos’s phone ‘hacked by Saudi Arabia’

Personal information was used to blackmail Amazon boss back in February

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The Saudi government hacked Amazon boss Jeff Bezos’s phone to gain personal information which was then used to try to blackmail him, his security chief has claimed.

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