![]() ![]() ![]() This is not tied to a bug or loophole – it is the way that WhatsApp was built.īottom line? Please be very careful whom you lend your phone to, and make sure you don’t leave it lying around. This video, posted on YouTube, shows how a hacker answers an authenticating call, intercepts a secret PIN, and uses that to access a WhatsApp account he just created on another phone. As reported by The Hacker News, anyone can hack your WhatsApp account with just your number and 2 minutes alone with your phone… WhatsApp – the super popular messaging app (800 million users), acquired by Facebook for $20 billion, has done it again… After a bug that exposed restricted profile pictures, data encryption that can be breached in 3 minutes, and the use of IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity) as a cryptographic key (it’s like using your Social Security Number as a password), WhatsApp is yet again in the headlines for privacy concerns… ![]()
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