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    What Jeff Bezos’s Reported Phone Hack Says About Billionaires

    Stunning new allegations about the relationship between the Amazon CEO and the crown prince of Saudi Arabia hint at just how connected the world’s most powerful people are.
    by Alexis C. Madrigal Jan 21, 2020 3 minutes
    Source: David Ryder / Getty

    Two of the world’s richest humans, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, were allegedly having a nice chat on WhatsApp in 2018 when the latter sent Bezos an infected file that exfiltrated data from the CEO’s phone. That’s according to a new report in The Guardian, which detailed the exchange according to anonymous sources.

    In the shadow of the new report, there is an indication of the murky reality of the network of the über-rich. The Bezos phone data or have sparked the . Bezos may or , which had run critical editorials by the journalist , who was .

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