Saudis gained access to Jeff Bezos’s phone, says Amazon security chief
Investigation concluded into leaked messages and threat of publishing ‘intimate photos’
Washington — The security chief for Amazon CE Jeff Bezos says the Saudi government had access to Bezos’s phone and gained private information from it. Gavin De Becker, a longtime security consultant, said he had concluded his investigation into the publication in January of leaked text messages between Bezos and Lauren Sanchez, a former television anchor who the National Enquirer tabloid newspaper said Bezos was dating. In March, Bezos accused the newspaper's owner of trying to blackmail him with the threat of publishing “intimate photos” he allegedly sent to Sanchez unless he said in public that the tabloid's reporting on him was not politically motivated. In an article for The Daily Beast website, De Becker said the parent company of the National Enquirer, American Media (AMI), had privately demanded that De Becker deny finding any evidence of “electronic eavesdropping or hacking in their news gathering process”.
“Our investigators and several experts concluded with high con...
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