Your WhatsApp group chats might not be as private as you think. Here’s what you need to know.
, adding that 470,000 search results can be found on Google for the term “chat.whatsapp.com”–a section of the URL used for WhatsApp group invites.
Although it’s true some of the links are meant to be open to the public, Vice also found chats that exposed the phone numbers of 48 participants in a WhatsApp group conversation between what appeared to be non-governmental organizations accredited by the United Nations. But ethical hacker @HackrzVijay said he had reported the issue to WhatsApp owner Facebook back in November, and Facebook had not done anything about it. In fact, it’s an “intentional product decision”, Facebook said, and group admins “can invalidate the link if so desired.”
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