Saudis hacked Amazon chief Jeff Bezos’s phone, says company's security adviser

Chief executive allegedly targeted because he owns Washington Post, where Jamal Khashoggi was columnist

The security chief for Jeff Bezos, chief executive of Amazon, says the Saudi government had access to Bezos's phone and gained private information from it.

Gavin de Becker, Bezos's longtime security consultant, said he had concluded his investigation into the publication in January of leaked text messages between Bezos and Lauren Sinchez, a former television anchor whom the US National Enquirer tabloid newspaper said Bezos was dating.