"Protect Your WhatsApp Account: How to Identify and Prevent Hacking Threats"

Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – Your WhatsApp account could be hijacked or tapped by bad people with the aim of draining your account and committing fraud. For this reason, you need to know about the features of WhatsApp to be taken over.

Don’t worry, you don’t need to panic, because there are steps to stop tapping that is happening on your WhatsApp account.

There are many ways for hackers to use string and spy. Such as installing third-party apps, using WhatsApp Web, and sending malware to a mobile phone.

This can be very dangerous, especially since WhatsApp is now used to obtain One Time passwords from various applications, including online shopping and financial applications.

The signs that WhatsApp has been tapped are very easy to spot, here are the details:

1. OTP

One Time Password (OTP) is a six-digit code and is usually sent via SMS when you access WhatsApp. This means that if a message comes in, someone is trying to enter the WhatsApp account. Do not give this OTP code to anyone.

2. Exit WhatsApp

One feature that can be recognized suddenly leaves WhatsApp. Another device may be trying to log into your WhatsApp account. You can find out about the other device by pressing the three dots icon and selecting WhatsApp Web.

3. Read Message

When a message is opened and read, you have to be careful. This could be a sign that your account has been hacked.

4. Message sent alone

This character is the same as before. Be careful if a message suddenly sends itself even though you never sent it.

5. Foreign WA Status

There is a WA status that appears suddenly, even if it was not created by the user himself.

6. Make a phone call

Foreign phone calls on WhatsApp are not made by the user himself.

Bitten WhatsApp solution

Before wiring like the one above happens, there is a way that can be done, that is by doing two-step verification or two-step verification.

Enable Two-Step Verification

To prevent being victimized by activating WhatsApp’s security feature, verify in two steps. In this way, criminals cannot access WhatsApp because they do not know the code used.

Here’s how to activate it:

– Click on the three dots option

– Go to Settings, then go to Account

and click on Two Step Verification

– Press Enable

– Enter six codes

– Don’t forget to enter your email address

to retrieve a code when it is forgotten

However, if this happens, you can use this method.

Report to WhatsApp

When you discover that your account has been hacked, deactivate the account immediately. Users can contact WhatsApp support email at [email protected] with the keyword “Lost/stolen: please cancel my account” in the body of the email to cancel the account.

Users can provide a detailed history of events, including when and possibly how their account was hacked.

Users have 30 days to reactivate their account before it is permanently deleted.

Log in again

You can reset WhatsApp to deal with ear. This can be done if the user has pressed the consent button to transfer the account.

Remember, reinstall with the previously registered number. That way you will find out the OTP code sent to that number.

WhatsApp account screen lock

The last method is to lock the screen like on Android devices. So no one else can access it. As you open the menu Settings>Privacy>select the option Screen Lock>Fingerprint Scan.

Check WhatsApp Web regularly

In addition, users must also be diligent to check other devices that log in using the web version of WhatsApp. If there is an unknown device, remove it immediately.

Here’s how to check connected devices via WhatsApp Web:

– Press the three dots option

– Click on WhatsApp Web

– Then you will see a list of devices

which is linked to a WhatsApp account

– Select Sign out of all devices.

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