Cybersecurity experts urge skepticism over claims Saudis hacked Bezos's phone by JennaMC_Laugh
WASHINGTON — When Jeff Bezos’s personal security consultant Gavin De Becker published what amounted to a startling indictment of the National Enquirer on Saturday, alleging that the tabloid publication may have worked with Saudi Arabia to expose the Amazon CEO’s affair, there was one thing missing: any evidence for the claim.
“If the Gulf states are going hog-wild on U.S. persons, that would be big news,” said Eva Galperin, director of cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. “But it’s also a claim that requires evidence.” However, De Becker’s op-ed does not indicate that the investigative team had obtained forensic evidence of an intrusion into any of Bezos’s devices, nor does it suggest that evidence, if it exists, has been reviewed by outside peers, as has been done with other notable hacking cases.
“If the purchased tool is sophisticated, it might be designed to leave no evidence,” said Timo Steffens, an author focused on researching targeted cyberattacks and attribution online. However, he continued, “unless there is forensic evidence, anything mentioned in that article is rather weak in front of a court.”
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