Facebook says Bezos hack highlights smartphone vulnerabilities

LONDON: The hack of Amazon.com billionaire Jeff Bezos’ phone, allegedly via a WhatsApp message, brings to light potential security weaknesses in smartphone operating systems, Facebook vice president Nicola Mendelsohn said. “One of the things that it highlights is actually some of the potential underlying vulnerabilities that exist on the actual operating systems on phones.”

Mendelsohn said in a Bloomberg Television interview with Francine Lacqua at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Thursday. Bezos’ iPhone may have been hacked after he received a message via Facebook’s WhatsApp messaging platform, from Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, according to a November 2019 report by FTI Consulting Inc, a business advisory firm, which was published by Vice.