Plot twist: Jeff Bezos' affair leak may have been Saudi government attack

It's a surreal geopolitical development that can be described as "incredibly 2019." 

Jeff Bezos' security advisor has determined that the party responsible for hacking the Amazon CEO's private messages and releasing evidence of his marital infidelity to The National Enquirer was ... the government of Saudi Arabia. 

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Gavin De Becker, who Bezos hired to investigate the phone hack that led to the public reveal of his affair with Lauren Sanchez, came to the conclusion that the Saudi government had targeted Bezos as retaliation for The Washington Post's coverage of the brutal murder of its journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was killed in a Saudi consulate in October 2018.  Read more...

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