WhatsApp to bring new fool-proof security feature ‘Login Approval’ to thwart hacking

With more than two billion active userbase, WhatsApp is the most popular messenger app on both iOS and Android platforms. However, it also attracts bad actors to prey on naive users to steal their identity and hoodwink latter’s relatives and friends to send money.

There has been a steady rise in WhatsApp being hijacked by hackers in India. It should be noted that close to 500 million people use the Meta-owned messenger app in the country.

Now, the company is testing a new fool-proof feature that would curb the hacking of WhatsApp accounts.

In the latest WhatsApp Beta for Android (v2.22.17.22), a new ‘Login Approval’ feature has been introduced.