How to Protect Your WhatsApp Account from Hijacking?

Sumera Saeed

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How to Protect Your WhatsApp Account from Hijacking?

PTA tells the users how to protect the WhatsApp account from hijacking?

If you are a WhatsApp users and worried about its security? You are at a right place today we will tell you the way by following it you can protect your WhatsApp account from hijacking.

Cyber Crime Wing of the Federal Investigation Department (FIA) has told that a number of incident of WhatsApp account hijacking have been reported in the last few months.

Therefore the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) in order to tackle the issue has issued a simple procedure by following the users of WhatsApp can protect their account from hijacking.  

How to protect WhatsApp account?

All the users just need to activate the  WhatsApp Two-Step Verification in order to avoid hijacking. If you are using this popular messaging and calling application you need to follow four (04) simple steps for the protection / verification of your WhatsApp Accounts.

Here’s is how to enable WhatsApp Two-Step Verification:

First Step:

Open WhatsApp and Click on the 3 dots located at the upper right corner

Then Open > Settings

Click on > Account

Then Select > Two-Step Verification Option

Click > Enable

Final Step:

Enter 6-digits PIN Code > then Enter Recovery Email Address for future PIN Code recovery (in case, if you forget PIN Code)

How to Protect Your WhatsApp Account from Hijacking?

So readers these are the simple steps by following them you can protect your WhatsApp Account from hacking.

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