Meta also won $444,719 in compensatory damages for costs tied to investigating the breach, securing systems, and mitigating reputational harm. Experts had predicted punitive damages could reach tens ...

However, on Tuesday (06.05.25), a jury in California agreed that NSO needed to hand over $444,719 in compensatory damages, as well as $167.3m in punitive damages to Meta.

The jury also decided that NSO Group must pay $444,719 in compensatory damages to Meta. NSO Group had argued it was not responsible for how its customers used Pegasus.

Meta Platforms, Inc. META -owned WhatsApp has secured a $168 million jury verdict against NSO Group, the Israeli firm behind the controversial Pegasus spyware, over a 2019 hacking incident.

The Israeli cybersecurity company NSO Group Technologies Ltd. today was ordered to pay $167 million in damages to Meta, ending a 6-year court battle after the former was accused of installing ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Meta Platforms won a $168 million verdict against the Israeli surveillance firm NSO, the company said Tuesday, capping a six-year arm wrestling match between America's ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Israel's NSO Group was handed a $168 million penalty by a federal jury in California on Tuesday for hijacking the servers of WhatsApp in order to hack users of the Meta-owned ...

(Reuters) -Social media giant Meta Platforms said on Tuesday it has been awarded $168 million in damages from the Israeli spyware firm NSO group after the surveillance company was found liable for ...