WhatsApp is undoubtedly the most loved messaging platform in the world. While the app makes sure to offer end-to-end encryption for chats, a cyber security researcher has shown that hackers can gain access to our personal chats and media through cloud backup. For starters, WhatsApp secures our personal chats with our contacts through end-to-end encryption, which ensures that only the sender and receiver have access to messages and the media shared between them. be received.
However, now a security expert has questioned the handling of WhatsApp chat backups that are stored on the cloud without end-to-end encryption. A report in The Mirror quoted the expert as saying that wrongdoing actors can hack our Google accounts to gain access to your personal chats and media. But this is not the first time a security expert has raised the issue of the security of cloud backup. However, you can secure your chats by using the disappearing messages option. These messages disappear after a period of time and are not stored on cloud backup.
To make WhatsApp a secure platform, the firm is now reportedly also working to bring end-to-end encryption for cloud backup. In a tweet, WABetaInfo said, “WhatsApp is also working on bringing end-to-end encrypted LOCAL backups to WhatsApp Beta for Android! They were working on E2EE backup to Google Drive, but they will be expanding this feature to local backup as well. This feature will be available in a future update.” WABetaInfo was the first to explore the end-to-end encryption feature in testing. WhatsApp will reportedly give users a passphrase to unlock the backup. In case, users can enter their paraphrase Don’t forget, that they can use a 64-digit recovery key to gain access to the backup.
