Tech experts have issued an urgent warning to WhatsApp users about their safety.
The widely used messaging service has a significant security flaw that might expose you to hacking.
Scammers could acquire access to your texts and read them, according to tech experts.
WhatsApp has a significant flaw that might allow hackers to access your communications to friends, family, and coworkers.
"WhatsApp is also planning to introduce end-to-end encrypted LOCAL backups on WhatsApp beta for Android!" tweeted @WABetaInfo on Twitter. They were working on E2EE backups on Google Drive, but they'll also make it available for local backups. In a future version, this feature will be available."
"Could you elaborate about local backup?" "I'm looking for a friend," one said.
"What does e2e encryption even mean when we're talking about data encryption at rest?" wrote another. This makes absolutely no sense to me.
"Will this allow me to restore an Android backup to an iOS device?" another inquired.
"No, because they are two different things," @WABetaInfo said.
End-to-end encryption is used in WhatsApp messages, but they can be retrieved in the cloud if they are backed up.