“After years of every trick and delay tactic it only took the jury a day’s deliberation to see right through to the heart of the matter: NSO’s business is based on hacking American companies…so that dictators can hack dissidents.”
A jury ordered NSO to pay WhatsApp $167 million in punitive damages for hacking about 1,400 users, including journalists and activists. Deliberation took a day. NSO will appeal. The trial exposed where victims were and named some customers.