{"id":8918,"date":"2025-05-07T05:21:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T05:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/israeli-spyware-firm-nso-ordered-to-pay-meta-whatsapp-nearly-170-million-over-hacking\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T05:21:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T05:21:41","slug":"israeli-spyware-firm-nso-ordered-to-pay-meta-whatsapp-nearly-170-million-over-hacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/israeli-spyware-firm-nso-ordered-to-pay-meta-whatsapp-nearly-170-million-over-hacking\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli spyware firm NSO ordered to pay Meta, WhatsApp nearly $170 million over hacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal jury in California ordered Israeli cyber-intelligence firm NSO Group on Tuesday to pay Meta and WhatsApp nearly $170 million for hacking about 1,400 users on the instant messaging platform.&nbsp; The spyware vendor, which created the Pegasus surveillance tool, has to pay $167,256,000 in punitive damages and another $440,000 in compensatory damages&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/technology\/5286568-israeli-spyware-firm-nso-ordered-to-pay-meta-whatsapp\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal jury in California ordered Israeli cyber-intelligence firm NSO Group on Tuesday to pay Meta and WhatsApp nearly $170 million for hacking about 1,400 users on the instant messaging platform.&nbsp; The spyware vendor, which created the Pegasus surveillance tool, has to pay $167,256,000 in punitive damages and another $440,000 in compensatory damages&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}