- The UN on Wednesday said it had received credible information that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos had his phone hacked by Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
- The UN published a summary of an external forensic investigation into the hack, which included details of how the Amazon CEO exchanged numbers with the Crown Prince, and how the alleged hack took place.
- The UN statement drew links with the murder of Saudi Arabian journalist and dissident Jamal Khashoggi in October 2018.
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UN investigators on Wednesday threw their weight behind Jeff Bezos, saying they had received information suggesting that the Amazon CEO had been hacked by Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Agnes Callamard and David Kaye - both special rapporteurs appointed by the UN - called for an investigation, and said the forensic report indicated that a number belonging to Crown Prince Mohammed had hacked Bezos' phone through a malicious video file sent via WhatsApp.
The Saudi government has flat-out denied the allegations, calling them "absurd."
The investigators don't explicitly state who was behind the forensic investigation, but reporting from The Guardian and The New York Times suggests the information has come from advisory firm FTI Consulting. The company was reportedly hired by Jeff Bezos after his intimate photos and messages found their way into the US tabloid The National Enquirer.
Callamard and Kaye didn't publish the forensic report in full, but did summarize its findings and publish a timeline of alleged events.
Here are some of the most bizarre details and twists: