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WhatsApp Security Failure Led to Account Theft and Privacy Violation
On October 17, 2025, at 01:29 a.m., I received a message on my phone stating, “An account belonging to you (WhatsApp) is... being registered on a new device.” A verification code was also sent. When I woke up in the morning and opened the app, I realized that I had been logged out of WhatsApp. During