A newly discovered flaw in the Facebook Inc.-owned messaging app Whatsapp can allow an attacker to suspend an account using only a user’s phone number. The proof of concept, developed by researchers Luis Márquez Carpintero and Ernesto Canales Pereña and first reported April 10 by Forbes, involves a wannabe hacker installing WhatsApp on a new phone using a target’s phone number.

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