WhatsApp security breach likely a government surveillance attack, company says

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Facebook's WhatsApp says a security breach of its messaging app was sophisticated and had all the hallmarks of a private company working with governments on surveillance.

and had all the hallmarks of a"private company working with governments on surveillance".

It said it was"deeply concerned about the abuse" of surveillance technology, and it believed human rights activists may have been the targets of the breach. "We're working with human rights groups on learning as much as we can about who may have been impacted from their community. That's really where our highest concern is," a spokesman said.

Ireland's Data Protection Commission, the lead regulator of WhatsApp in the European Union, said in a statement the vulnerability"may have enabled a malicious actor to install unauthorised software and gain access to personal data on devices which have WhatsApp installed".Scott Storey, a senior lecturer in cyber security at Sheffield Hallam University, said the attack appeared to be carried out by governments targeting specific people, mainly human rights campaigners.

"For the average end user, it's not something to really worry about," he said, adding WhatsApp quickly fixed the vulnerability.Earlier, the Financial Times reported

 

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And this is the 'secure' application that Mal Bullturd promoted. The man throws eggs at himself.

HAHAHA! And it is NOT by Huawei and NOT by China! What have the nutters got to say?

Things like this are bound to happen when you have an Assistance and Access Bill 2018. It was only a matter of time.

...who cares; the social domain is the governmental domain, is the hackers' domain, is the pirates domain, is the domain absent of any expected level of privacy; if you don't already know this then your head is well and truly in the sand...Sanitynow

Should I delete the app

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