WhatsApp's New Username & PIN Features: Enhanced Privacy Explained
A LOOPHOLE in WhatsApp has let hackers bypass the app's View Once feature, meaning private images and chats have been shared without consent.Researchers discovered that hackers can turn off the View Once feature after the content has been sent to the recipientThe content sent under the View Once feature will automatically disappear from chats after being opened for the first time.
"We had responsibly disclosed our findings to Meta, but when we realised the issue is already exploited in the wild, we decided to make it public to protect the privacy of WhatsApp's users," Zengo's CTO Tal Be'ery said in a new Researchers discovered that hackers can turn off the View Once feature after the content has been sent to the recipient.WhatsApp's New Username & PIN Features: Enhanced Privacy Explained
"Privacy is critical for Instant Messaging. WhatsApp acknowledged that by supporting End-to-End Encryption for its users' conversations by default," Be'ery concluded.
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