Saudi Arabia hacked the phone of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and appears to be the source of private information about a sexual affair that ended up in the pages of The National Enquirer, according to Gavin de Becker, the veteran security consultant who works for Bezos.
In a first-person essay in The Daily Beast on Saturday, de Becker said he and other experts investigated how anyone could get access to Bezos’ private phone messages to his lover, Lauren Sanchez, after some messages were published in The National Enquirer and others became the subject of an extortion plot by the publication.