Be cautious while using WhatsApp; your mobile number can be leaked on Google
JUNE 08 (WTN) - If you use a smartphone, then you must have used WhatsApp in your smartphone. But do you know that the biggest populace instant messaging app WhatsApp in the world poses a big threat to the privacy of millions of users. In fact, it is being claimed that such a shortage has been found in WhatsApp, that due to this deficiency, other people are finding out the phone number of WhatsApp users in the Google search.
You must have gone shocked after reading all this. But for your information, let's know that according to the news posted in business and IT sector related independent news website Threatpost, a researcher Atul Jayaram has claimed to have made a shocking disclosure about WhatsApp. Actually, researcher Jairam claims that if one uses the 'Click to Chat' feature of WhatsApp, other can search the mobile phone numbers of WhatsApp users through Google.
Jayaram claims that mobile phone numbers of WhatsApp users have been leaked on Google search. According to Jayaram, "Leaking the numbers of WhatsApp users in this way is a big security bug of WhatsApp."
If you use WhatsApp, then for your information, let's know that the 'Click to Chat' feature of WhatsApp gives users the option of chatting with visitors on the website. This feature works with the help of a quick response code image. Or you can also chat by clicking on a URL. Explain that visitors do not have to dial the number to do this, and they easily take full access to the phone number.
IT expert Jairam says that the mobile numbers of WhatsApp users are also coming up after searching on Google. In the research shared through Threatpost, Jayaram has stated that the mobile number of users is present in the plane text. Therefore, whoever has the URL will be able to easily see the mobile phone number of users. It is clear that due to this, the mobile phone numbers of WhatsApp users can be misused.
But on the allegations of WhatsApp users' mobile numbers being leaked on the Google search, Facebook, owner company of WhatsApp, says that this is not a new or big fact. Facebook says that Google comes to the search results which users have selected to make themselves public. There is no mistake from WhatsApp in this. In such a situation, we advise you to be careful while using WhatsApp, and do not make your mobile number public.
