How to know if someone else is viewing your WhatsApp messages

This post is inspired by conversations I had with two people recently. Someone called me and asked me to assist in “hacking” a phone number so this person could ‘read’ the WhatsApp messages of the phone number in question. I told this person that WhatsApp chats were difficult to hack.

On the other hand, another person told me of how the person’s WhatsApp was ‘hacked’ and the individual was reading messages and this was only noticed months after. We have therefore decided to show you how to check if someone else is snooping in on your conversations.

First off, let me state that WhatsApp messages are end-to-end encrypted meaning that messages you send out are difficult to read elsewhere. There are still ways by which one can mirror your chats and be viewing them elsewhere. It is important we keep our phones close to us and locked so as to reduce the chances of being snooped on.

For some of us who are mostly on our PCs, we tend to mirror our phones on our PC so we can monitor messages without having to pick up the phone.

How to mirror your phone on your PC

• To achieve this you need an active internet connection on both your phone and your PC

• On the phone go to WhatsApp =>Settings=>WhatsApp Web

• On the PC open your browser then go to https://web.whatsapp.com/ 

• A barcode will be displayed for you to scan with your phone after which you will be able to view your chats on the PC.

You can now use your WhatsApp on your PC. 

Now, Who's snooping Around? 

Now that we know how to mirror our WhatsApp, it is also possible that while we were not looking someone may have mirrored our WhatsApp on the web so you can check that out and log out by;

Go to WhatsApp =>Settings=>WhatsApp Web

Check if there are any active WhatsApp web sessions if there is any you don’t recognize you can log out of them and be safe.

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If you must use a shared PC  such as those in an office or a cybercafe always remember to log out. Also, remember to untick the "keep me signed in" box when you are signing in.

If we observe these measures, it will help us stay safe and keep our conversations private as much as possible.

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