{"id":850100,"date":"2025-05-21T19:11:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T00:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/21\/israeli-spyware-firm-nso-ordered-to-pay-meta-whatsapp-nearly-170-million-over-hacking\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T19:11:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T00:11:51","slug":"israeli-spyware-firm-nso-ordered-to-pay-meta-whatsapp-nearly-170-million-over-hacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/21\/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.\u00a0 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; Filip Timotija<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.\u00a0 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;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":850101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,34951],"tags":[6379,11617],"class_list":{"0":"post-850100","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israeli","8":"category-spyware","9":"tag-israeli","10":"tag-spyware"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}