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On Tuesday, May 6, 2025, a federal jury ordered NSO Group, an Israeli-based government spyware company, to pay a record $167 million in damages for hacking more than 1,000 people through WhatsApp messages, concluding six years of litigation.[2] The jury returned its verdict on the second day of deliberations in the damages phase of the trial held in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. In a prior ruling issued in December, Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton granted summary judgment in favor of WhatsApp, holding that the Israel-based NSO Group violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act,[3] (CFAA) as well as California’s Comprehensive Computer Data Access and Fraud Act[4] (CDAFA), through its deployment of NSO’s Pegasus spyware.