High-ranking executives often use their personal phones for work and keep sensitive information on them. But when an executive’s personal phone or device is hacked, the company’s general counsel needs to jump in to reduce the data risk.

On Wednesday, the United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner called for an investigation into allegations that the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, “deployed digital spyware,” which enabled surveillance on Amazon.com Inc. CEO Jeff Bezos and leaked data from his phone. The report states Bezos’ phone was hacked through a corrupted video sent by bin Salman in 2018.

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