The Business Insider newspaper said that a number of celebrities, executives and businessmen whom Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman met during his visit to the United States in 2018, may examine their mobile devices after news of hacking the phone of the Amazon founder and owner of "Washington Post" Jeff Bezos.

And Insider added that bin Salman met during the same trip in which he met Bezos, ten famous people, technology experts and businessmen, including Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, and founders of Google, Microsoft and Virgin companies and the current presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg.

The newspaper said that the Saudi crown prince also met a number of media stars and Hollywood, such as News Group CEO Robert Marduk, broadcaster Oprah Winfrey, and actors Michael Douglas and Morgan Freeman, are likely to examine their phones for fear of being hacked, according to the newspaper.

In the same context, the director of the New York Times office in Beirut, Ben Hubbard, said that hackers linked to Saudi Arabia tried to penetrate his phone, adding in a tweet on Twitter that the attempt was made a month after the announcement of the phone hacking Jeff Bezos.

Earlier, the British Guardian newspaper - quoted sources familiar with the results of a United Nations criminal investigation published yesterday - as saying that a message sent by the Saudi Crown Prince to the American billionaire through the WhatsApp application contained a malicious file that penetrated the phone of the American billionaire.

Two UN officials announced on Wednesday evening that they have information indicating the "possibility of" the Saudi Crown Prince's involvement in the penetration of Bezos phone, and called for an immediate investigation, but Riyadh was quick to deny.