The
hugely popular smartphone messaging service WhatsApp, acquired by Facebook
for over $20 billion last year, has reportedly been found to be prone to
hijacking without unlocking or knowing your device password, making its
hundreds of Millions of users vulnerable to, not just hackers, but also
non-technical people.
This
trick lets anyone surrounds you to get effectively control over your WhatsApp
account. The attacker needs nothing more than a phone number of the target
person and access to the target mobile phone for a few seconds, even if it is
locked.
Hacking
Whatsapp account in such scenario is not hard for your friends and colleagues.
This is
not actually a loophole or vulnerability in WhatsApp, and rather it is just the
way WhatsApp is designed and its account setup mechanism works.
NOTE: Moreover, we aren’t encouraging
users to hack others WhatsApp account,
but the purpose of publishing this article is to warn and remind our readers
that you should be extra careful to whom you lend your mobile phone and not to
leave it unattended for longer durations with strangers around.
The trick
enables the offender to get full control over the victim’s WhatsApp account in
no time and the most surprising part is that it independently works on all
mobile platforms, including Android, Windows and Apple’s iOS.
Here’s How to Hijack someone
else’s WhatsApp Account?
Below are
the clear steps to hack the WhatsApp account on any Smartphones:
- Begin by setting up a WhatsApp account on a new mobile phone using the phone number of your target.
- During the setup process, WhatsApp will call the target’s phone number and will provide a PIN that needs to be entered for the authentication of the account.
- If you already have access to the victim’s phone, you can just answer the phone call and grab the code with no efforts. Even if the victim has a lock screen enabled on the phone, you can receive the phone call to get the secret PIN.
Using
this known and simple trick your colleagues can hijack your WhatsApp Account
easily.
The worst case is with iPhones:
Things
get even worse on iPhone if the users have configured their iPhones with Siri
authentication for the lock screen, because all the contact details are
available to access the Siri’s settings, effectively giving everyone access to
their phone number without the need for a PIN.
Thus, if
you try to steal the account information of WhatsApp, without even having the
phone number of the target user, you can just call your number from target’s
phone using Siri.
Just
check the given video demonstration that explains the simple trick of taking
control of anyone’s WhatsApp account.
Whoa
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