Jared Kushner reportedly used WhatsApp to chat with Mohammed bin Salman, who may have used the same app to hack Jeff BezosReports that President Donald Trump's son-in-law, the senior White House aide Jared Kushner, communicated with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on the messaging app WhatsApp caused a stir when they first emerged almost two years ago.
But a new bombshell report from The Guardian suggesting that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' phone was hacked by a malicious link sent by the de facto Saudi ruler's number on WhatsApp raises new concerns that Kushner could be vulnerable to similar hacking by the Saudi government.
The Guardian described a forensic analysis that concluded Bezos' phone was most likely infiltrated after he opened a video file sent to him from the crown prince's number in May 2018. After Bezos opened the file, data was rapidly extracted from his personal phone, the report said.
The Saudi Embassy in the US released a statement Tuesday night calling the reporting "absurd."
"Recent media reports that suggest the Kingdom is behind a hacking of Mr. Jeff Bezos' phone are absurd," the embassy tweeted. "We call for an investigation on these claims so that we can have all the facts out."The Intercept first reported in March 2018 that Kushner had messaged with the crown prince on WhatsApp, a popular encrypted communication app owned by Facebook. CNN reported the same in October 2018.
Kushner's lawyer Abbe Lowell told the House oversight committee in December 2018 that Kushner was using WhatsApp for official government communications, including with individuals outside the US..............
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