WhatsApp claims to offer end-to-end encryption to safeguard your chats. Also, using the same WhatsApp number on two devices is impossible. However, your WhatsApp account can be spied upon using WhatsApp Web. All your chats could be read by an unauthorized person.
WhatsApp Web is a powerful feature released which lets users send or receive a message using any device by associating their WhatsApp Account using scanning a QR Code. The WhatsApp Web lets users simulate the WhatsApp account on any device with a fixed web browser. This can be used to spy or hack your WhatsApp.
I have found several ways to know if someone is spying on WhatsApp. Today in this post I will tell you how you can find which other phone or PC is accessing your WhatsApp. Also, I will explain how to keep yourself safe from breaches or getting hacked.
How to Know if Your WhatsApp is Being used on other Devices?
Often, people take an interest in your life. To sneak into your privacy, they can access your WhatsApp chats. All they need is a few seconds of your unlocked phone and WhatsApp Web Barcode. Boom!! They can now see an exact duplicate of your WhatsApp account with all the chat and media.
The WhatsApp on your cell phone will work normally. However, every WhatsApp you send or receive will be visible on the device of the person spying on your chats. WhatsApp Web will simulate your WhatsApp account on the unauthorized device with all the chat logs, access to media, view status, and even send messages.
How to Know if they Spy via Whatsapp Web?
In case you missed it, I want to let you know that the first evidence will appear on the cell phone itself in the form of a notification.
If you missed it then you can check the account usage by doing the following.
- Launch WhatsApp on your phone.
- Tap the overflow icon.
- Select Linked Devices from the menu.
If one or several computers with open sessions appear which you have not given access to, then your WhatsApp account is compromised to another device. Your account is “intervened” and they are spying on you.
Notice any changes to the name, About section, or WhatsApp avatar that you never made. Any modification to these data may signify a hack resulting from a breach of your WhatsApp account.
What to do if WhatsApp is Open on Another Device?
To prevent WhatsApp from being hacked you can log out of all the sessions that are open and the person will lose access to your account immediately.
To avoid these things happening again, the most effective solution is to configure WhatsApp with App Lock. In this way, even if someone gets your phone, they can not access the WhatsApp application and connect it to a PC or other App via WhatsApp Web.
Know if WhatsApp is Open on Another Device
Another way in which persons can spy on WhatsApp is by activating the account on another device. They register your WhatsApp number in another mobile, and during their configuration, they recover all your chats or conversations saved in the application. Anyone can do this by taking their cell phone, to receive the verification code that WhatsApp sends.
If such a thing is done then on your phone you will be greeted with the message “This phone could not be verified” because the number is registered on another device.
You can re-verify your number to regain account access.
Protect Your WhatsApp Account from getting Activated on other Devices
There is a much-sophisticated method to protect your WhatsApp from getting active on another phone. All you need to do is enable two-step verification. To do so go to,
- Open WhatsApp.
- Tap the 3-dot icon and select Settings.
- Go to Account.
- Tap on Two-step verification.
- Press the button Turn On.
Follow the further instructions on the screen to complete setting up the two-step verification on the WhatsApp account.
When someone tries to activate your WhatsApp on another device, he will be asked for a security code that only you know. Without that code, it will be impossible for another person to register your WhatsApp on another computer.
Check if Your WhatsApp Profile Info was Changed
If some unauthorized person has access to your WhatsApp chats, they may have made changes to your contact info.
- Open WhatsApp.
- Press the 3-dot icon at the top and go to Settings.
- Tap on your avatar to visit your WhatsApp profile information.
Notice any changes to the name, About section, or WhatsApp avatar that you never made. Any modification to these data may signify a hack resulting from a breach of your WhatsApp account.
Check WhatsApp Chats for Messages Exchanged with Unknown Contacts
When someone has remote access to your chats, they may have exchanged messages with some other person who is not in your contact list.
Usually, WhatsApp chat has so many messages from your contacts, groups, and businesses you follow that it is normal to overlook any message exchanged with an unknown person.
- Launch WhatsApp.
- Scroll through the chats.
If you see a message sent to a number or contact you never added on WhatsApp, block them immediately.
How to Know if Someone Hacked WhatsApp Files?
This is a complex method to gain access to the WhatsApp chat but it is an easy trick which can put your privacy at risk. A rogue can access the chat even with a locked WhatsApp account.
They will target the WA Chat log, images, videos, and other media in the File Manager. The cybercriminal can send the files to his/her device or they can use auto-backup apps like Backup Text for WhatsApp. Also, they can directly email all your WhatsApp conversations in plain text. This is a very serious type of threat and many WhatsApp users don’t know about it.
Keep Your WhatsApp Files Safe in File Manager
Update WhatsApp on your phone regularly to stay safe from getting your WhatsApp chat hacked or getting your media files shared on WhatsApp leaked. The updates consist of security patches with backup encryption. Also, it is better to have an App lock for File Manager if you think a person may go as far as to sneak into your personal life.
Note & Conclusion:
Although WhatsApp is end-to-end encrypted, make sure to check the Linked Devices to see if there’s some unauthorized device connected to your phone. Remove the connected devices from your WhatsApp account that you don’t recognize.
As of now, there is no other way to hack into someone’s WhatsApp, unless the hacker has your phone with all the apps unlocked. I hope the post was helpful. Comment below for any queries or support. Provide your valuable suggestions to improve this post.
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Sir I want to check whether my WhatsApp hacked or not but qr scanner is showing there and I don’t know how I can remove or disable it
Tq it was very helpful
Thanks for the post. Was very useful. Even someone with little or no knowledge on hacking could hack your WhatsApp account if you don’t secure it.
I receive on a Scan QR message on the WhatsApp Web setting. There is no option to view devices.
Safe!
there is someone using ma WhatsApp and I don’t know who is.
Not possible unless using WA Web
someone is tracking my account in whatsapp and i need help right now i woul like you to contact me places bcaus i haven’t been using my whatsapp this reason why
Send me a message from the contact us page.
If I dlt my wa chats then can someone read them again WhatsApp Web?
No! Once you delete know one can read your chats.
Hi. I m feeling that someone see my chat and video.
What I should do
Check WA Web if there is any active session
I uploaded DP but after sometime is not visible to me but it visible to others how… What happened to my whatsapp account.
Just grant all the permissions to the WhatsApp. It will fix the issue.
Never heard of this! Might be some serious hacking. You did a good job by deleting your WhatsApp Account.
Same happened with me on October 22nd. Even I want to know what happened? and how it happened?. The ones which got messages say that the message was of some work from home advertisement. Please reply.
Actually one of my neighbour scanned my wts app for some photocopies in his laptop.. can he still be using my wts app in his laptop ?
Just log out of WHatsApp Web. He can’t access your Chat!
Amazing
Hello sir/ma pls a friend has been able to hack into my WhatsApp account and he is reading all my messages, intruding my privacy, and as you write up suggested I have checked the WhatsApp web but didn’t find anything, I only saw scan QR code, I don’t know how he is doing it but he knows all the messages coming into my WhatsApp and we haven’t seen for like 3 months now but he knows all the recent messages and has confronted me on phone, and he has never even had access to my phone because he doesn’t know my phone’s password, how could he be doing this? And I want to ask that if I take all the measures from stopping the hacking in your write up, will it work in a way that he won’t be able to read my messages again? Pls reply
Similar problem need help
will such problem will be solved by changing the whatsapp number
Yes
I logged out from WhatsApp web from a different computer ,, is there any way to log in from there if anyone wants?
I saw a phone image on my blinging.the bar code section
Is this the phone spying on me .
And a laptop image too
If my phone is hacked and my WhatsApp is shared can it be seen on the QR icon?can the whatapp web not indicate if there is another spying object? Must i delete my WhatsApp and install again?
If whatsapp is running on your device and if, WhatsApp web does not show any logged-in devices, then you are safe.
My ex is hacking my WhatsApp and I don’t know how but he keep telling me about recent messages.
Check for WhatsApp Web if there is any device logged in. If so immediately log out
When I click the whatsapp web it’s tell me to use whatsapp on other devices but no devices is shown under and link a device also shown, is someone hack my whatsapp.what should I do kindly help me
No! your WhatsApp is totally safe
Hi I have fallen victim to the latest scam where the scammers message your contacts with. 6 digit code asking you to forward asap. I did this last week thinking is was back to the friend who’d sent it. Now one week later, all my contacts have received the same message and I’ve deleted my WA account and now can’t access it again. Can you help? do the scammers also have access to my wallet, PayPal, etc. as Ive now had messages from eBay, amazon etc. that my password has been compromised.
Wow
Thanks
My WhatsApp has been cloned all these while.
I never knew ‘ WhatsApp wed is active’ is a notification of my WhatsApp being monitored, this has put me in trouble overnight
if some one using our whatsapp number in there phone can i get to know he s using duplicate of my whatsapp ?
No but you can again register on your mobile and he will immediately loose access to your WA
If someone has my phone and opened the what’sApp , also he took the verification code,
Can I get notifications if he logged in?
I received a message from WhatsApp which reads ‘WhatsApp registration code was requested for your phone number. If you didn’t do this, don’t share this code with anyone’.
So just to safeguard myself, I followed your suggestions. Thanks a lot, now I have a piece of mind.
🙂
Same thing happened with me twice. I don’t know what is happening.
My wife has an app called “WhatsApp Clone” – you need a password to log in to it. Is there a way I can find out if she has cloned my phone?
Check your WhatsApp Web. if it has a login just log out and you are safe
what info report, could you please elaborate?
Pls, some body sent me some code to verify my account, but I ignore it,then, to login to my account noway,and I deleted the WhatsApp to reinstall another one those people still send me the codes now I can not installed another WhatsApp to verify is problem, what can I do?
Pls my WhatsApp doesn’t have web , how can I do dat
I face a different problem I enabled two step verification still getting notified that ur wp is unregistered register again to access .what to do?