whatsapp hack – All Whatsapp users must beware of a new Whatsapp security flaw<\/strong>\u00a0that allows anyone to\u00a0deactivate your account<\/strong>\u00a0using your phone number.<\/p>\n The hackers\u00a0don\u2019t need any information<\/strong>\u00a0about the user except the phone number. In this flaw, the attacker can block your account but will not gain any access to it.<\/p>\n The security researchers Luis Marquez Carpintero and Ernesto Canales Perena first discovered the flaw in the most popular messaging app. According to the researchers, the hackers first\u00a0download the app<\/strong>\u00a0on their phones and tries to\u00a0log in<\/strong>\u00a0by using the victim\u2019s phone number.<\/p>\n However, when they try to log in, the victim gets a\u00a0two-factor authentication code<\/strong>\u00a0which is sent by Whatsapp. As the attacker does not get the code, and he keeps repeating the process and due to failed attempts,\u00a0Whatsapp disables the login process for 12 hours.<\/strong>\u00a0With this, even the victim can\u2019t log in to their account for the given period of time.<\/p>\n As the attacker couldn\u2019t do anything by login, now they try to send an email to Whatsapp.<\/strong>\u00a0In the email, they claim that the phone number (the victim\u2019s phone number) is lost or stolen so that account needs to be deactivated.<\/p>\n Without cross-checking,\u00a0Whatsapp verifies it and suspends your account.<\/strong> And if the process is repeated, then Whatsapp might permanently lock your account. whatsapp hack<\/p>\n ESET\u2019s Jake Moore told,<\/p>\n There is no way of opting out of being discovered on WhatsApp. Anyone can type in a phone number to locate the associated account if it exists.<\/p>\n Ideally, a move towards being more privacy-focused would help protect users from this, as well as forcing people to implement a two-step verification PIN.<\/p>\n Regarding the Whatsapp security flaw, a spokesperson told to Forbes, that \u201cgiving an email address with two-step verification helps the customer service team to avoid this scenario, but still, Whatsapp has responsibility.<\/p>\n At present, there is no solution to this security flaw and Whatsapp has also not provided any details on whether they are fixing it or not.<\/p>\n Whatsapp is one of the most popular apps with a huge user base of billions of users globally. At this moment, there are many users who have not registered their accounts with their email addresses.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n