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Facebook blames Apple for Jeff Bezos' iPhone Hack via WhatsApp

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' iPhone was reportedly hacked through messages he received via WhatsApp. A Facebook executive said the incident revealed a security hole in the smartphone operating system, not the messaging app itself.

Facebook Vice President Nicola Mendelsohn told Bloomberg in a comment on the widely reported incident that the hacking of the Bezos iPhone only showed that "some Potential potential vulnerabilities in the phone's actual operating system. "

Bezos' iPhone may have been hacked after receiving a message via Facebook-owned WhatsApp. A 2019 report from FTI Consulting revealed that the news came from Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman, also known as MBS. The message from MBS contains only 4.22MB of video.

Bezos's iPhone began exporting data within hours of receiving the message. Large-scale data breaches are unauthorized and continue for months. Investigators investigating the incident noted that Bezos' smartphones began sending large amounts of data after receiving messages via WhatsApp.

The FTI report states: "The amount of data transferred from Bezos phones has changed dramatically after receiving WhatsApp video files and has never recovered to the baseline state." It jumped about 29,000% immediately. "

The report states that before receiving messages via WhatsApp, Bezos' iPhone sent an average of 430KB of data per day. The report emphasized that this amount "is quite typical of an iPhone." The situation changed after Bezos' smartphone received the message-months after the incident, the data output increased to 126MB within hours, an average of 101MB per day.

According to the Guardian, despite WhatsApp messages being linked to MBS, the Saudi Embassy has denied that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was involved in the hacking. It said each allegation was "ridiculous" and called for an investigation into the matter.

In response to Facebook's Mendelsohn, the social media giant will take any allegations that its applications and services have been used by hackers seriously. However, the executive said the company would not comment on any personal stories. She also said that Facebook will investigate these issues.

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