Cybersecurity

Facebook Points Blame at Smartphone Vulnerabilities in Bezos Hacking

EMEA Vice President Mendelsohn spoke to Bloomberg TV at Davos
Mendelsohn said Facebook was going to look into WhatsApp hack

WATCH: Scroll to 6m49s for Mendelsohn’s comments on the hack of Jeff Bezos’s phone.(Source: Bloomberg)

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By Amy Thomson

January 23, 2020 at 11:13 AM UTC

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The hack of Amazon.com Inc. billionaire Jeff Bezos’s phone, allegedly via a WhatsApp message, brings to light potential security weaknesses in smartphone operating systems, Facebook Inc. vice president Nicola Mendelsohn said.