the solution is still temporary

With all these new features that WhatsApp releases day after day, it seems that the quality department is not going at the same speed in finding flaws in the experience of one of the most installed chat applications on the planet. And now we know that Has anyone successfully deactivated a WhatsApp account? in a few simple steps.

Blocking the account serves to perform a temporary deactivation of the service of cat. During the month the user needs to re-enable it, contacts continue to see their name and profile picture, as well as all saved messages, but if that day passes, everything is permanently deleted.

The serious security problem noted by Jake Moore shows that the deactivation of the account could have been done by anyone. The normal method is to go to the phone, WhatsApp and the function to delete my account, but there is another which is precisely where the serious error was found, because to access delete the account you need to have the mobile of the person, in this case not at all.

You just go to the WhatsApp FAQ page to find out what can be done use email support

in order to enter only the phone number and go to deactivation with this sentence: “Lost/Stolen: please deactivate my account”. it’s just what moore did during a test in which he finally received the WhatsApp support email informing him that his account had been deactivated much to his surprise.

At 8 a.m. Moore posted another tweet in which he stated that WhatsApp had deactivated this feature temporarily. In fact, the chat app confirmed to Moore that his test was valid for disabling it until he fixes this mess that hundreds of users could have been involved in without really knowing what was going on. In any case, reactivating it at the precise moment when we know that access to WhatsApp is closed would not take long either, but the first scare wins one.

A moment that shows that with all these advances that the various big technology companies are implementing in their services, without the relevant tests or the investment in an up-to-date quality service with all these integrations, it can mean that among the millions of ‘users who use these applications or software, someone can commit an action that can cause great loss to the company.

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