How To Protect Your WhatsApp From Hackers

 

In reality, social media account need more security and much more awareness of the new terminologies those hackers out there are exploiting to hack account. 

Recently,  many WhatsApp accounts are been hacked due to the owner's unawareness of hacker's new techniques. If you have been looking for a way to secure your account from being hijacked by hackers, this tutorial is mainly for you.

However, the most important point need to know are, "why hacker will target my account?" and "how the hacking process will be done?"

Let take it one after the other, 

Why will hacker target my account? 

Well, for this, there are many many reasons and depends on individuals but mostly hackers will beg your family and friends for cash. Most of them will even tell plenty lies to your contacts just to extort money from them. 

And, the must importantly, 

How will my WhatsApp account get hacked? 

Well, mostly the hacker uses trick method. For instance, you might receive call from perhaps a strange number pleading you that WhatsApp will send you a code and he needs that code to complete his own registration or maybe for some other thing. And, out of pity you will want to help the person out. 

Another instance is, someone might offer to render you an assistant such as "how to make money", "how to do some stuff online" or mostly doing dome set of stuffs for you on WhatsApp and in the process will ask you to send him the pin you receive from WhatsApp. 

Measures To Secure Your Account

1. WhatsApp will never send you a pin or OTP for someone else to complete his/her registration. So,  in case of call pleading for this, kindly disregard it completely. 

2. Stop Joining Unknown groups. Groups are very interesting, however, that is the main point where hackers cam get your contact easily. Avoid unknown groups. 

3. Setup two-step-verification for your account. Two step verification is a very secure way to protect your account from hackers. Two step verification works in such a way that if mistakenly you give out the OTP you received, you don't have much worries as it will still serve as protection backup. 

=> Go to settings

=> Choose Account

=> Select Two-Step-Verification from the page that appear, setup a very strong password and recovery email should be the one you can log-in to its inbox in case you lost or forget the pin you setup. 

=> Hit Ok/save. 

4. In case someone wants offer help, never send them OTP unless it's someone you know personally and remember, someone you know personally account might also had been hacked unknowingly to you. 

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