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Litigators of the Week: Spyware-Maker NSO Group Hit With $168M Verdict for Hacking WhatsApp
A trial team led by Greg Andres, Antonio Perez-Marques and Micah Block of Davis Polk & Wardwell convinced jurors that NSO Group, the Israeli company behind the Pegasus spyware, “engaged in malice, oppression or fraud” in violation of California’s anti-hacking law,
NSO Group Hit with $168m Fine for WhatsApp Pegasus Spyware Abuse
On May 6, a California federal jury found that the Israeli spyware vendor owes $167.254 million in punitive damages for hacking into about 1400 WhatsApp users' devices. It will also have to pay $444,719 in compensatory damages to Meta, the owner of WhatsApp.
NSO Group, the Israeli spyware-maker behind Pegasus, must pay Meta $167.25 million for hacking 1,400 users across WhatsApp. A ...
An eight-person jury granted Meta $444,719 in compensatory damages to cover the costs of addressing the breach, plus an ...
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$168M Blow to Pegasus: Spy Tech Firm Exposed for Abusing WhatsApp to Target CiviliansIn a landmark court ruling, the creator of the infamous Pegasus spyware, NSO Group, has been ordered to pay $168 million in ...
Meta won its case in December after a ruling that the spyware company used Pegasus to target "over a thousand" WhatsApp users ...
Besides a potentially damning slip of the tongue in front of the jury, NSO compared itself to Apple and each side argued over ...
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