Facebook swears it's not totally to blame for Jeff Bezos' WhatsApp hack

Facebook responded to reports that Jeff Bezos' phone was hacked via WhatsApp with a big "well, actually..."

Over the past few days, reports piled up indicating that Saudi Arabia's crown prince Mohammed Bin Salman sent a malware-laden video to Bezos via WhatsApp that let him access the Amazon CEO's private data. Until Thursday, Facebook, which owns WhatsApp, had been silent. But now one Facebook official is trying to put some of the blame on Bezos' iPhone. 

At the billionaire sleep-away camp known as Davos, Nicola Mendelsohn, Facebook's vice president for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, told Bloomberg that the company was taking the allegations "seriously."  Read more...