{"id":83353,"date":"2015-11-06T15:14:13","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T13:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=83353"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:08:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:08:23","slug":"when-you-read-about-this-new-hacking-method-youll-be-afraid-to-use-facebook-and-whatsapp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/when-you-read-about-this-new-hacking-method-youll-be-afraid-to-use-facebook-and-whatsapp\/","title":{"rendered":"When you read about this new hacking method, you&#8217;ll be afraid to use Facebook and WhatsApp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Investigators specialized in security have discovered that simply contacting someone by WhatsApp or Facebook can <strong>reveal the location of their smartphone<\/strong>. This hack is possible if a security breach found in the 4G network is exploited.<\/p>\n<p>When a cell phone connects to the network, it is assigned a temporary number known by the acronym TMSI. This code is made up of eight random numbers. The security breach<strong> allows the hacker to access the data behind this code<\/strong> using WhatsApp and Facebook; the hacker sends a contact request and that request becomes the breach.<\/p>\n<p>In this way, the hacker would <strong>obtain the cell phone&#8217;s location<\/strong>. The hacker would not know the exact whereabouts of their victim: but they would have a zone of two square kilometers within which the owner of the cell phone in question is located.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-83354\" title=\"smartphone-trackin_3485244b-568x402\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2015\/11\/smartphone-trackin_3485244b-568x402-568x402.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"568\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2015\/11\/smartphone-trackin_3485244b-568x402.jpg 568w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2015\/11\/smartphone-trackin_3485244b-568x402-256x181.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now that <strong>this security breach has been discovered<\/strong>, we hope it&#8217;s fixed as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s normal to feel paranoid about using Facebook and WhatsApp but remember, that although these hacking methods look easy to execute on paper, <strong>they require time and dedication<\/strong>. For example, in this case radio communications would need to be hacked. That&#8217;s not something you achieve in five minutes.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a title=\"See the original story\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/mobile-phones\/11960030\/WhatsApp-and-Facebook-signals-can-be-hacked-to-track-your-location.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Telegraph<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investigators specialized in security have discovered that simply contacting someone by WhatsApp or Facebook can reveal the location of their smartphone. This hack is possible if a security breach found in the 4G network is exploited. When a cell phone connects to the network, it is assigned a temporary number known by the acronym TMSI. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/when-you-read-about-this-new-hacking-method-youll-be-afraid-to-use-facebook-and-whatsapp\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;When you read about this new hacking method, you&#8217;ll be afraid to use Facebook and WhatsApp&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2057,"featured_media":83355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2333],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-83353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionwhatsapp"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2057"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329455,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83353\/revisions\/329455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83353"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=83353"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=83353"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=83353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}