A while ago, an article was published, its content noting that the numbers of 500 million users of WhatsApp were leaked, and many wondered about what was happening, and technical expert Abdullah Al-Subaie warned of the danger of opening random links through the instant communication site “WhatsApp.” Al-Subaie said through his official account via Twitter, that it has been Recently, the numbers of 500 million users were leaked to the WhatsApp application and then offered for sale.
The numbers of 500 million WhatsApp users were leaked
Technical expert Abdullah Al-Subaie warned of the danger of opening any of the random links that reach users via the WhatsApp application, and Al-Subaie added, through his official account on Twitter, that 500 million numbers of WhatsApp users were leaked and these numbers were offered for sale, and he explained that these leaked numbers include 29 million numbers From within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and therefore beware of random messages and links aimed at fraud and theft.
Earlier, he had noted hacking and hacking operations in the WhatsApp application for direct communication between users, and Al-Harbi said in a tweet to him through his official account on Twitter that it is necessary to beware of the presence of some hackers who publish fake links claiming to be for WhatsApp groups, and once they are entered and data is entered, the account is hacked and published. The link from your account to hack your contacts.
Do not disturb feature in WhatsApp
Al-Harbi explained that the Do Not Disturb feature will soon arrive in WhatsApp, and he explained that when this feature is activated, no one can contact you if you do not want to receive his call or messages, whether it is a voice or video call, and at the same time when you open the application, you will receive an alert of his call. .
The features that the application studies
WhatsApp recently revealed that it is testing a new update for users of devices running the “Android” system, and it also allows a new feature that automatically mutes groups of more than 256 people by default, and this feature will be activated if the number of participants in the group exceeds 256.
Some of the new features in WhatsApp
WhatsApp recently announced its introduction to a new feature that facilitated the process of transferring chats to your contacts, and according to what the technical expert said, this feature was not previously available, but now the image with speech and chats can be converted to chat destinations and converted to send to your contacts easily, and it had The company, Meta, the owner of WhatsApp, announced that it has introduced three new features in the stable version of the application, which include:
- Expanded group size.
- and communities.
- and polls in the chat.
