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Technology: Beware! Your WhatsApp can be hacked in 30 seconds!
- Updated: August 1, 2016
Despite a introduction of end-to-end (E2E) encryption, WhatsApp messages that were deleted don’t accurately disappear. They can be compromised and accessed by hackers simply within 30 seconds, reveals a commentary of a UAE-based non-profit online reserve organization named, Emirates Safer Internet Society (E-SAFE).
Can WhatsApp be hacked in 30 seconds? https://t.co/n17hcR6fJy https://t.co/dhT6sKiuUx …#SafeUpWhatsApp
— E-SAFE Society (@esafesociety) Jul 31, 2016
In a YouTube video (view embedded twitter above), they explain how gullible users could be duped by cyber intruders into giving entrance to their WhatsApp accounts.
Instant-messaging app WhatsApp rolled out end-to-end encryption in Apr this year, to potentially strengthen texts and voice calls of a over one billion users from hackers and “regimes”. (Read more)
In a associated survey, a E-SAFE group detected that 8 out of 10 WhatsApp users destroy to record out from a web application. This they contend could poise a critical confidence threat.
Furthermore, confidence experts detected that deleted WhatsApp chats continue to sojourn even after users have privileged their data. Although, WhatsApp outlines a chats as deleted when a user deletes them, new information is not overwritten over deleted data, hence creation them recoverable regulating debate softwares.
This is because, deleted WhatsApp chats still sojourn in a Facebook-owned insta-messaging app’s database. The smirch was detected in a latest WhatsApp chronicle on iPhone.