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by diggan 648 days ago
> Real question: Has WhatsApp ever had a security leak that we know about? Example: Someone can break into accounts, or chats were leaked?

Yes, a bunch of them. I don't remember any of the years, but from the top of my head:

- Pegasus was installable via Whatsapp calls that didn't need to be installed, probably the most famous vulnerability with the largest impact

- Bunch of multimedia vulnerabilities that allowed attackers remote execution

- At least one huge database dump was released at some point

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Oh, I forgot about Pegasus. Hat tip there.