{"id":291870,"date":"2019-01-12T08:31:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-12T06:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=291870"},"modified":"2019-01-12T08:37:03","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T06:37:03","slug":"whatsapp-bug-could-expose-all-your-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/291870-whatsapp-bug-could-expose-all-your-messages.html","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp bug could expose all your messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/possible-bug-in-whatsapp-may-provide-others-with-access-to-all-your-messages-524516.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Softpedia News<\/strong><\/a> reports that a WhatsApp bug can provide users access to complete message archives of other users.<\/p>\n<p>The finding was reported by Amazon employee Abby Fuller, who claimed that she gained access to another user&#8217;s WhatsApp archive on her new phone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes it was a new device. It was not a second-hand SIM. Yes I&#8217;m sure they weren&#8217;t my messages, or groups that I was added to,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Fuller added that the messages were in plaintext, and were not restored by a backup.<\/p>\n<p>Other users have reported similar incidents when setting up WhatsApp with a new phone number.<\/p>\n<p>WhatsApp claims that a message history associated with a specific phone number is destroyed after the number is not used for 45 days.<\/p>\n<p>However, Fuller said her number had been hers for over 45 days, meaning that the account should already have been cleared of all messages.<\/p>\n<p>WhatsApp has not yet offered an official statement on the matter.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/291772-canon-to-launch-8k-capable-full-frame-mirrorless-camera.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Canon to launch 8K-capable full-frame mirrorless camera<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon employee Abby Fuller claimed that she gained access to another user&#8217;s WhatsApp archive on her new phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":168223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[8839,56598,2594],"class_list":["post-291870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-instant-messaging","tag-message-archive","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291878,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291870\/revisions\/291878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}