WhatsApp Vulnerability allow Hacker to Read Personal Messages,

WhatsApp Vulnerability allow Hacker to Read Personal Messages,

Vulnerability in WhatsApp Allows Hackers To Read Your Conversation and View Media

If you are using WhatsApp on Android be careful before getting private on WhatsApp. An IT security expert Bas Bosschert has discovered a critical vulnerability, allowing another Android apps to access and read all of a user’s chat conversations.

Bas Bosschert an IT Security company, Discovered a critical vulnerability in WhatsApp which allows another Android app to read all chat data.

If you allow WhatsApp to build a backup of your data for charts to install App on other device, the data will be sent to WhatsApp database and also saved in the SD Card of your Android Device. WhatsApp is using same password for all of its users, and the bad news is a developer can build/develop an app to decrypt and penetrate into the data include (images, videos and charts). So if you grant the permissions to app its ask for , athird party can check your all messages.

Not only Android users are affected which this security flaw also iOS users have the same situation, but Apple blocked all access to WhatsApp’s database.

How it is done:

Check what actually happen, Bosschert’s official blog here.

How to avoid it?
According to my personal view, it is very simple to avoid getting your chats exposed to a third party. All you have to do is to NEVER download/use or allow an unknown/phony app on your Android phone. advice from HackRead