WhatsApp account: You can get locked out due to a flaw. How to prevent it

WhatsApp has often advertised the robustness of their end-to-end encryption that keeps the content within chats safe from a third party to access it. But what happens if the user is not able to access the app itself to read these messages? A recent vulnerability has been discovered in WhatsApp security that could let a third person block a WhatsApp user’s access from their own account for a considerable amount of time. One of the biggest issue with this new vulnerability is that it doesn’t need the third person to be a trained hacker or even have a lot of experience with hacking.

This new flaw was discovered by security researchers Luis Márquez Carpintero and Ernesto Canales Pereña, according to a report by Forbes.