How to make your WhatsApp more secure and prevent it from being stolen

Whatsapp

WhatsApp has now become the main, and sometimes the only, means of communication for users. more than one billion users that you have it installed on your devices. Relying on an application for practically all our communications can become a problem, especially if we are not careful.

Microsoft's Windows has always come under attack from hackers, because it is the most widely used operating system in the world. However, as the mobile device has become the main device for use, replacing PCs on many occasions, we have to take special care with our smartphone.

Protecting our WhatsApp account is a very simple process and it does not have any major complications, as long as we apply common sense. Below we show you various tips if you want your WhatsApp account be safe and that nobody can steal it from you.

Protect our WhatsApp account It is a very simple process that does not require great knowledge and that we can do in two different ways, both from the application itself and from outside.

Protect your WhatsApp account from within

Ignore the messages that WhatsApp sends us

WhatsApp verification code

Whatsapp you never communicate with us through your own platform. Whenever you need to send us a confirmation message when we sign up, change our phone number or have to verify our identity, you will ALWAYS do it through text messages.

If you receive a message through WhatsApp stating that it is the platform itself, the first thing you should do is report the number to the platform in order to prevent other people from being deceived and having their account stolen. Next, once the phone number that claims to be WhatsApp has been reported, you should immediately delete the message.

The messages that the messaging platform can send us through the application itself will always request the code that we have received via SMS, a necessary code in case we are installing WhatsApp on other devices associated with the same phone number. That code is necessary yes or yes to confirm that we are the rightful owners of the phone number.

Beware of links

In the image that heads the previous section, we can see a link, a link that directs us to the WhatsApp website, so it is completely safe and we will not have any problem with our account. However, if we receive a message with a link to a non-WhatsApp website, claiming to be the messaging service, we should never press it and much less enter any type of data that you request.

Close the web sessions that we have open on the computer or tablet

Close open WhatsApp web sessions

Depending on the number of hours we spend in front of the computer, it is likely that on more than one occasion we will have a conversation through WhatsApp Web, the service that allows us to use WhatsApp from a browser without interacting with our terminal, always when it is on.

If we use different computers to connect to our WhatsApp account, computers that are not ours, the best we can do is log out every time we stop using it. In this way we will prevent other people with access to those computers from seeing the conversations that we have stored on our device.

Protect access to the application

Protect access to WhatsApp

WhatsApp allows us protect access to the application in order to prevent people in our environment from having access to our device, if they know the unlock code of our terminal or if we have momentarily left it without blocking. Regardless of whether our Android or iOS terminals to add an activation code, we must enter Settings> Account> Privacy and Screen lock.

If our device is an Android, we must access the application and enter Settings

Turn on XNUMX-Step Verification

WhatsApp two-step verification

Two-step verification has become one of the safest ways to protect our account and today it is offered by most of the large companies that offer online services or applications for mobile devices. This protection system, it is also available on WhatsApp.

The operation of the two-step verification in WhatsApp allows us to establish a 6-digit code, cCode to use when installing the application on a new mobile device. Without this code it is impossible to access our WhatsApp account, so we should not share them with absolutely anyone.

Protect your WhatsApp account from outside

Protect access to our smartphone

Block access to smartphone

Although it may seem strange and despite the fact that all devices offer us some protection system, we can still find many users who do not have any protection system on their smartphone, either through fingerprint, through a pattern, unlock code or through a facial recognition system.

Be wary of applications that offer to protect your WhatsApp account

From time to time, on Android, applications that claim to appear in the Android Play Store offer us a plus of security to the most used messaging application in the world. These types of applications do not extend the security that WhatsApp already offers us, and the only thing we can achieve if we install them is that they rob us of our account.

How to recover WhatsApp account

If we have the misfortune of having lost access to our account, the only possibility we have to recover our account is through a simple email, specifically through the mail support@whatsapp.com, email where we must send the following information related to our account:

  • Telephone of the WhatsApp account, including the country code.
  • End modell from where we used WhatsApp.
  • Description of what has happened. If we want to receive an answer as soon as possible, we must write the email in English. If we write it in Spanish, it is likely that the affirmative and negative answer from WhatsApp will take longer than expected.

If the reason for which you request to recover your account is not related to the theft of itInstead, your account has been suspended previously, it is likely that this time it will be final and you will not be able to recover the WhatsApp account associated with your phone number.


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