The report stated that just "hours" after Bezos received the file from bin Salman, his phone began transmitting dramatically higher amounts of data, and that this continued for months.[1] The video in the file was not infected, but the downloader of the file could not be analysed by investigators because it was encrypted by WhatsApp.[14] The report points to two pieces of circumstantial evidence: first, a November 2018 message from bin Salman to Bezos includes an image resembling the woman Bezos was having an affair with, despite the affair not being public knowledge at the time; second, a February 2019 text from bin Salman to Bezos urges Bezos not to believe everything, after Bezos was briefed on the phone regarding an Internet campaign against him conducted by Saudis.[2] The report states that investigators' belief that bin Salman's advisor, Saud al-Qahtani, obtained the hacking software.[4] The report does not link The National Enquirer to the hack.[4]